• Title/Summary/Keyword: Intelligent Vehicles

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Developing an Intelligent Traffic Control Algorithm in Multi-Intersections, and Performance Analysis using Petri Nets (다중 교차로에서의 지능형 교통제어 알고리즘 개발 및 페트리네트를 이용한 성능측정)

  • 강영화;고인선
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2000.10a
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    • pp.66-66
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    • 2000
  • In this parer, we introduce an algorithm to control flows of the traffic in multi-intersections. It is pointed out that the main problem in traffic control is how to resolve the congested situations for the particular time-durations and directions. The heavy load to a certain direction usually leads the intersection to congested situations, and the adjacent intersections are affected. We control and analyze the traffic flow of multi-intersections consisting of five intersections, in which four intersections are linked to the four directions of the central one. The entrance of vehicles of each direction is described using the concept of probability. We compare the performance of the pretimed signal controls to the traffic adaptive signal controller using a Petri Net simulation tool, Exspect.

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Lane Detection and Tracking Using Classification in Image Sequences

  • Lim, Sungsoo;Lee, Daeho;Park, Youngtae
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.8 no.12
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    • pp.4489-4501
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    • 2014
  • We propose a novel lane detection method based on classification in image sequences. Both structural and statistical features of the extracted bright shape are applied to the neural network for finding correct lane marks. The features used in this paper are shown to have strong discriminating power to locate correct traffic lanes. The traffic lanes detected in the current frame is also used to estimate the traffic lane if the lane detection fails in the next frame. The proposed method is fast enough to apply for real-time systems; the average processing time is less than 2msec. Also the scheme of the local illumination compensation allows robust lane detection at nighttime. Therefore, this method can be widely used in intelligence transportation systems such as driver assistance, lane change assistance, lane departure warning and autonomous vehicles.

A Stop-and-Go Cruise Control Strategy with Guaranteed String Stability (String Stability를 보장하는 정지/서행 순항제어 시스템)

  • 박요한;이경수
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.10 no.6
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    • pp.227-233
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    • 2002
  • A vehicle longitudinal control strategy with guaranteed string stability for vehicle stop-and-go(SG) cruise control is presented in this paper. The SG cruise control systems should be designed such that string stability can be guaranteed in addition to that every vehicle in a string of SG cruise control vehicles must track any bounded acceleration and velocity profile of its preceding vehicle with a bounded spacing and velocity error. An optimal vehicle following control law based on the information of the 1311owing distance (clearance) and its velocity relative to the vehicle ahead (relative velocity) has been used and string stability analysis has been done based on the control law and constant time gap spacing policy, A validated multi-vehicle simulation package has been shown that the string stability analysis using the approximate model of the vehicle servo-loop which includes vehicle powertrain and brake control system dynamics is valid in the design of the SG cruise control law with guaranteed string stability.

Control of Lane Change of Vehicles using Fuzzy Logic for the Intelligent Vehicle Highway System(IVHS) (IVHS에서의 Fuzzy 논리를 이용한 차량의 차선 변경 제어)

  • Lim, Hyung-Soon;Kim, Myung-Joong;Lee, Chang-Goo
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1998.07b
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    • pp.465-467
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    • 1998
  • A lane change maneuver is a part of lateral control of an automated highway system. Assuming no direct measurement of its position during transition from one lane to another. A vehicle is controlled to follow the virtual desired trajectory using only on-board sensors. This paper investigates the development of a fuzzy controller for automated lateral control during emergencies. The performance of the fuzzy controller is presented at 20m/s for a step lane change and a double lane change. The robustness of fuzzy controller is investigated with respect to change in tire parameters and the number of passengers.

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A Study on the Intelligent Cruise Controller Design (지능 직선주행 제어기 설계에 관한 연구)

  • Rhee, Wook
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1998.07b
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    • pp.666-668
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    • 1998
  • An adaptive nonlinear observer-based longitudinal control law for vehicles is presented in this paper. It is assumed that for vehicle i knows only the distance between vehicle i and the preceding vehicle, i-1. An adaptive nonlinear state observer for vehicle i is developed to estimate the velocity and acceleration of the preceding vehicle, i-1. The communication of the position, velocity, and acceleration information is not used in the proposed method. It will be shown by mathematical analysis that the longitudinal control of vehicle can be implemented without an communication of the informations. It will be proven that the observation errors of the nonlinear states converge to zero asymptotically. To show the effectiveness of the proposed method, the simulation results are presented for the longitudinal control of the vehicle.

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Optimization of Traffic Signals Using Intelligent Control Methods (지능제어기법을 이용한 신호등 주기 최적화)

  • Kim, Keun-Bum;Kim, Kyung-Keun;Chang, Wook;Park, Kwang-Sung;Park, Jin-Bae
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1997.07b
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    • pp.735-738
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    • 1997
  • The traffic congestion caused by the exploding increase of vehicles became one of the severest social problems. Among the various approaches to solve this problem, controlling the length of traffic signals appropriately according to the individual traffic situation would be the most plausible and cost-effective method. To design a traffic signal controller which has such a property as adaptive decision-making process, we adopt fuzzy logic control method(fuzzy traffic signal controller), Moreover, using genetic algorithms we obtain an optimized fuzzy traffic signal controller (GA-fuzzy traffic signal controller). To evaluate and validate the proposed fuzzy and GA-fuzzy traffic signal controller, simulation results are presented.

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Heresiological Labeling in Ecumenical Networking from the Ninth to Thirteenth Centuries : The Byzantine Oikoumene Reconsidered

  • KUSABU, Hisatsugu
    • Asian review of World Histories
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.207-229
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    • 2016
  • Apart from its Greco-Roman and Christian connotations, considering its continuous influence in the Byzantine world, the oikoumene should be seen as a geo-political as well as socio-religious concept of networking and unity in popular thought and local narratives. This paper argues that "ecumenical" thought survived after Late Antiquity and through the Byzantine era in the Orthodox transportation infrastructure of people and information. It also provides a review of the circulation of heresiological "labels" in the middle to late Byzantine eras. In the Mediterranean, routes, transportation vehicles, and any media supported intelligent networking in the oikoumene. People in the oikoumene could access foreign teachings or stories from outsiders or "barbarians" of different faiths. Constantinopolitan intellectuals coined and issued labels for heretics, such as the Bogomils, Paulicians, and Massalians, and constructed a narrative of the heretical contamination from the center of the oikoumene. Heresiologists collected the information used in creating these heresy titles from far-flung places in all directions from Constantinople, and then exported the labels, which were spread using the transportation network of the Byzantine oikoumene.

Improvement of Telematics Technology Utilizing Logistics Information (물류정보를 활용한 텔레매틱스 기술 개선방안)

  • Byeon, Eui-Seok
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.32 no.2
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    • pp.38-44
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    • 2009
  • Recently, automobile industry expands from mechatronics area through intelligent information area, and the telematics technology is one of the greatest developing points. The telematics is utilizing the on-board-unit of vehicle's communication system, and it provides necessary information and value-added service to vehicles as well as drivers. Most of the telematics offers the solution of searching a route or generates an optimal path. This paper investigates telematics with the logistics point of view, such as freight location tracking, vehicle emergency information, etc. The telematics is a core technology of automobile industry, and it becomes new business paradigm of IP(information provider). Especially, ETA(estimated arrival time) of freight and distribution tracing information are critical issues in the logistics industry. The successful integration with telematics is introduced in the paper.

Color Enhancement in Images with Single CCD camera in Night Vision Environment

  • Hwang, Wonjun;Ko, Hanseok
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2000.07a
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    • pp.58-61
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    • 2000
  • In this paper, we describe an effective method to enhance the color night images with spatio-temporal multi-scale retinex focused to the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) applications such as in the single CCD based Electronic Toll Collection System (ETCS). The basic spatial retinex is known to provide color constancy while effectively removing local shades. However, it is relatively ineffective in night vision enhancement. Our proposed method, STMSR, exploits the iterative time averaging of image sequences to suppress the noise in consideration of the moving vehicles in image frame. In the STMSR method, the spatial term makes the dark images distinguishable and preserves the color information day and night while the temporal term reduces the noise effect for sharper and clearer reconstruction of the contents in each image frame. We show through representative simulations that incorporating both terms in the modeling produces the output sequential images visually more pleasing than the original dim images.

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Theoretical Study on Eco-Driving Technique for an Electric Vehicle with Dynamic Programming

  • Kuriyama, Motoi;Yamamoto, Sou;Miyatake, Masafumi
    • Journal of international Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.114-120
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    • 2012
  • Eco-driving technique for electric vehicles (EVs) is investigated in this paper. Many findings on EVs have been reported; however, they did not deal with eco-driving from the viewpoint of theoretical study. The authors have developed an energy-saving driving technique - the so-called "eco-driving" technique based on dynamic programming (DP). Optimal speed profile of an EV, which minimizes the amount of total energy consumption, was determined under fixed origin and destination, running time, and track conditions. DP algorithm can deal with such complicated conditions and can also derive the optimal solution. Using the proposed method, simulations were run for some cases. In particular, the author ran simulations for the case of a gradient road with a traffic signal. The optimization model was solved with MATLAB.