Statistical signal processing for automotive safety systems

F. Gustafsson
2005 IEEE/SP 13th Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, 2005  
The amount of software in general and safety systems in particular increases rapidly in the automotive industry. The trend is that functionality is decentralized, so new safety functions are distributed to common shared computer hardware, sensors and actuators using central data buses. This paper overviews recent and future safety systems, and highlights the big challenges for researchers in the signal processing area. Challenge I: Wheel speed analysis, using wheel speed as a generic
more » ... se sensor, is discussed in Section 3. Challenge II: Virtual sensors for monitoring and control systems are discussed in Section 4. Challenge III: Navigation as dynamic state estimation for monitoring and control systems is discussed in Section 5. Challenge IV: Situational awareness by target tracking and road prediction for collision avoidance systems is discussed in Section 6. Challenge V: Sensor-near signal processing, for improving and supplementing the sensor fusion, is discussed in Section 7. Section 8 summarizes how sensor fusion may be structured in the future.
doi:10.1109/ssp.2005.1628820 fatcat:5fmg3fp5fbbibhs32veytxtiuy