Traffic situation estimator for Adaptive Cruise Control

Tianyi Yu, Jenny Eden, Cristofer Englund, Tony Larsson
2016 2016 IEEE 17th International Symposium on A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)  
The Traffic Situation Estimator is a method that analyses vehicle behaviour by monitoring and counting the surrounding traffic. This is done with image analysis that keeps track of several vehicles through consecutive frames under good lightning conditions on a straight one way road. The behaviour of the detected vehicles is then analysed in a state machine driven counter to estimate the traffic rhythm and determine if the detected vehicles are approaching, getting away, have been overtaken or
more » ... ave overtaken the ego-vehicle. Depending on the result the Traffic Situation Estimator suggest different reactions helping the driver to follow the traffic rhythm which will improve safety and the energy efficiency. If the user is not following the traffic rhythm the application will give advice to the user how to adapt to the traffic rhythm by driving faster, slower or optionally suggest to overtake vehicles ahead. i
doi:10.1109/wowmom.2016.7523567 dblp:conf/wowmom/YuEEL16 fatcat:oz2rwjbqbfdidfh3nqfsmyqpcu