International Journal of Automotive Technology

The Korean Society of Automotive Engineers (한국자동차공학회)
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STABLE AUTONOMOUS DRIVING METHOD USING MODIFIED OTSU ALGORITHM

  • Lee, D.E. (Graduate School of Mechanical Engineering Department, Chonnam National University) ;
  • Yoo, S.H. (Graduate School of Mechanical Engineering Department, Chonnam National University) ;
  • Kim, Y.B. (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Chonnam National University)
  • Published : 2006.04.01
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Abstract

In this paper a robust image processing method with modified Otsu algorithm to recognize the road lane for a real-time controlled autonomous vehicle is presented. The main objective of a proposed method is to drive an autonomous vehicle safely irrespective of road image qualities. For the steering of real-time controlled autonomous vehicle, a detection area is predefined by lane segment, with previously obtained frame data, and the edges are detected on the basis of a lane width. For stable as well as psudo-robust autonomous driving with "good", "shady" or even "bad" road profiles, the variable threshold with modified Otsu algorithm in the image histogram, is utilized to obtain a binary image from each frame. Also Hough transform is utilized to extract the lane segment. Whether the image is "good", "shady" or "bad", always robust and reliable edges are obtained from the algorithms applied in this paper in a real-time basis. For verifying the adaptability of the proposed algorithm, a miniature vehicle with a camera is constructed and tested with various road conditions. Also, various highway road images are analyzed with proposed algorithm to prove its usefulness.

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