{"title":"DOA estimation for spread spectrum inter-vehicles communication and ranging system with array antenna","authors":"T. Yoshioka, R. Kohno","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2000.898396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2000.898396","url":null,"abstract":"Many vehicular spread spectrum (SS) radar systems for inter-vehicles communication and ranging have been proposed. It is possible to communicate and measure the distance between the user and targets, the relative speed, and the angle to multiple targets and to communicate with the multiple targets by the vehicular spread spectrum radar system. However, if multiple targets exist at different places with the same distance from the vehicle, it is difficult to separate the signals by identifying the targets. In this paper, we apply the algorithm of detecting different direction of arrivals (DOAs) of the reflected signal waves from the targets, which is based on the spatial spectral estimation capability of an array antenna. Performance of the proposed schemes is analyzed by computer simulations.","PeriodicalId":114981,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2000 (Cat. No.00TH8511)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114255669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design of pseudo-noise sequences for a spread spectrum communication and ranging system","authors":"K. Mizutani, R. Kohno","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2000.898379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2000.898379","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a new method for designing spread sequences for a spread spectrum (SS) communication and ranging system. The proposed sequence is a concatenated EOE sequence, which is composed of inner-sequences with EOE sequences and an outer sequence with an M sequence. We proposed EOE sequences that have equivalently good properties of both even and odd correlation, which are important for acquisition and demodulation in SS communications. Usually the concatenated sequences that PN-sequences are connected simply have bad properties of autocorrelation. Inner-sequences that composed the concatenated EOE sequence have good properties of correlation. Moreover the concatenated sequence has good properties of autocorrelation. This results in low peaks for autocorrelation of the concatenated EOE sequences, which is useful for achieving stable acquisition. And the proposal sequences have long period. So the concatenated EOE sequence is suitable for a spread spectrum communication and ranging system uniquely.","PeriodicalId":114981,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2000 (Cat. No.00TH8511)","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128306135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tracking cycle: a new concept for simultaneous tracking of multiple moving objects in a typical traffic scene","authors":"Z. Hu, K. Uchimura","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2000.898347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2000.898347","url":null,"abstract":"Because of the complicated motion pattern of moving objects in a typical on-road traffic scene, detecting the real moving objects and properly tracking each one have become very difficult and always employ optical flows and fixed template matching to detect and track the moving objects. Unfortunately, it has to pay a huge calculation cost and can not deal with some complicated motion pattern like overlapping of tracked objects. A new concept of tracking cycle is proposed in the paper. With the continuous estimation of moving objects vitality and reliability values, our method can detect and track up to more than 30 moving objects in real time. The flexible dynamic template matching method is also presented in the paper, which makes our system faster and more efficient for real-time ITS applications. Experiments on real outdoor road scenes show the accuracy and efficiency of our approach.","PeriodicalId":114981,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2000 (Cat. No.00TH8511)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127449825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Bellutta, Roberto Manduchi, Larry Matthies, K. Owens, Arturo L. Rankin
{"title":"Terrain perception for DEMO III","authors":"P. Bellutta, Roberto Manduchi, Larry Matthies, K. Owens, Arturo L. Rankin","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2000.898363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2000.898363","url":null,"abstract":"The Demo III program has as its primary focus the development of autonomous mobility for a small rugged cross country vehicle. Enabling vision based terrain perception technology for classification of scene geometry and material is currently under development at JPL. In this paper we report recent progress on both stereo-based obstacle detection and terrain cover color-based classification. Our experiments show that the integration of geometric description and terrain cover characterization may be the key to enabling successful autonomous navigation in cross-country vegetated terrain.","PeriodicalId":114981,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2000 (Cat. No.00TH8511)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124225455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disseminating messages among highly mobile hosts based on inter-vehicle communication","authors":"L. Briesemeister, L. Schäfers, Günter Com, Hommel","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2000.898398","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2000.898398","url":null,"abstract":"We present an approach to distributing messages among highly mobile hosts in ad hoc networks. We focus on using direct radio communication between moving vehicles on the road that requires no additional infrastructure. Thus, the vehicles need to organize access to the radio channel in a decentralized manner. We derive the medium access control from the standard IEEE 802.11. Also, the vehicles use omnidirectional antennas implying that a sender can transit to multiple hosts simultaneously. As an example, we study a road accident that is reported to nearby vehicles. Simulations show that the quality of the proposed protocol by measuring how many vehicles inside a zone-of-relevance are informed under various conditions.","PeriodicalId":114981,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2000 (Cat. No.00TH8511)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127180836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Detection and classification of passenger seat occupancy using stereovision","authors":"M. Devy, A. Giralt, A. Marín-Hernández","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2000.898433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2000.898433","url":null,"abstract":"Vision systems offer new opportunities for the improvement of vehicle safety. The detection and classification of passenger seat occupancy open up new ways to control the airbag firing. We present a stereo system designed for the observation of the cockpit scene in order to provide information about the passenger presence and location within the vehicle cockpit; from the stereo data, a cockpit occupancy map is generated. Several typical configurations of the passenger seat must be recognized (empty seat, adult presence, baby seat, ...). During an offline learning step, several cockpit images are recorded for each of these situations; for each one discriminant attributes are extracted. Then, the seat situation is recognized using a case-based classification method.","PeriodicalId":114981,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2000 (Cat. No.00TH8511)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126133231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A novel fuzzy control of the intensity of head lights for night driving","authors":"S. Kher, P.R. Bajaj, P. Sharma","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2000.898321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2000.898321","url":null,"abstract":"The increase in number of road vehicles has out paced the improvements and developments on the road resulting into unsafe road travel. In a conventional car today, drivers would still be required to manoeuvre the vehicle at night without any assistance by the system. The traffic moves at higher speeds along the highways and freeways at night. In this paper we attempt to provide optimal illumination in the event of different road and weather conditions by designing a fuzzy control for head light intensity of the vehicle. We propose a fuzzy control for light intensify control. The design, development and the effectiveness of the control is discussed.","PeriodicalId":114981,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2000 (Cat. No.00TH8511)","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128462693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vehicle intelligence and the 21/sup st/ Century Truck Initiative: A new application for a new century","authors":"J. Misener, D. Gorsich","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2000.898434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2000.898434","url":null,"abstract":"The role of vehicle intelligence in the 21/sup st/ Century Truck Initiative is discussed. The background and motivation is given, along with its goals: improving fuel efficiency, reducing emissions, increasing safety, and on the whole, reducing the cost of ownership of light, medium and heavy duty commercial and military trucks by 2010. Vehicle intelligence is defined in the context of its contribution toward achieving the overall goals of the initiative. Examples of notional vehicle intelligence services are provided, along with a discussion of the possible benefits. This sets the stage for anticipated future work. Finally, the development process envisioned for the Vehicle Intelligence Team of the 21/sup st/ Century Truck Initiative is briefly described.","PeriodicalId":114981,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2000 (Cat. No.00TH8511)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129169827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Depth map from the combination of matched points with active contours","authors":"E. Martinez, C. Torras","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2000.898364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2000.898364","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the analysis of an active contour fitted to a target in a sequence of images recorded by a freely moving uncalibrated camera. The motivating application is the visual guidance of a robot towards a target. Contour deformations are analysed to extract the scaled depth of the target, and to explore the feasibility of 3D egomotion recovery. The scaled depth is used to compute the time to contact, which provides a measure of distance to the target, and also to improve the common depth maps obtained from point matches, which are a valuable input for the robot to avoid obstacles.","PeriodicalId":114981,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2000 (Cat. No.00TH8511)","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124651602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stereo vision-based vehicle detection","authors":"M. Bertozzi, A. Broggi, A. Fascioli, S. Nichele","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2000.898315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2000.898315","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the methods for sensing vehicles (localization and tracking) implemented on the ARGO vehicle. The perception of the environment is performed through the sole processing of images acquired from a stereo vision system installed on board of the vehicle.","PeriodicalId":114981,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2000 (Cat. No.00TH8511)","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123341202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}