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Implementation of Vehicle Wiper Control System Using Image Sensor

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  • Jeon, Jin-Young (Division of Electronics, Information & Communication Engineering, Kangwon National University) ;
  • Chang, Hyun-Sook (Hanseo University) ;
  • Byun, Hyung-Gi (Division of Electronics, Information & Communication Engineering, Kangwon National University)
  • 전진영 (강원대학교 전자정보통신공학부) ;
  • 장현숙 (한서대학교) ;
  • 변형기 (강원대학교 전자정보통신공학부)
  • Received : 2014.07.02
  • Accepted : 2014.07.28
  • Published : 2014.07.31
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Abstract

When raining or snowing, windshield wiper system is very important for safety of driver. However, manual wiper system frequently needed to be controlled for sufficient visibility and it was very uncomfortable. So, rain sensor which controls automatically was developed. This rain sensor technology uses optical sensing technique sensed the rainfall by receiving reflected light of rain dropped on the windshield. The technology used optical sensor was simple and easy to implement as a rain sensing system in the car. However, it is sometime shown low accuracy to measure rainfall on the windshield when affected by ambient lights from surroundings. It is also given inconvenience to the driver to control the car. To solving these problems, we propose a rain sensing system using image sensor and the fuzzy wiper control algorithm.

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