{"title":"Vehicle road navigation to minimize pollutant exposure","authors":"Ji Luo, Alexander Vu, M. Barth","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2013.6629572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2013.6629572","url":null,"abstract":"Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) technology is often aimed at improving vehicle safety and mobility. Lately a number of ITS applications are also focusing on environmental issues such as reducing greenhouse gases (through improved fuel economy) and reducing overall pollutant emissions. Typical environmental ITS applications (e.g., eco-routing) focus on reducing total mass vehicle emissions for generalized areas. To date however, environmental ITS applications haven't considered emissions from a pollutant exposure point-of-view. In this paper, we introduce a new vehicle routing methodology that goes beyond minimizing overall pollutant emissions, instead minimizing pollutant exposure to localized populations along roadways. As part of this effort, a unique modeling suite has been developed to allow for the evaluation of environmental ITS applications from a traffic emissions exposure point of view. For the routing algorithm, the human intake fraction that is commonly used for quantifying emission exposure is modeled and used as a routing cost. Experimental modeling results show that the intake fraction of particulate matter for 5-14 year-old school children on school days can be reduced approximately 80%-90% on a typical schoolday with the implementation of intelligent routing algorithms.","PeriodicalId":251198,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126251556","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":"Towards leveraging the driver's mobile device for an intelligent, sociable in-car robotic assistant","authors":"Kenton Williams, J. C. Peters, C. Breazeal","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2013.6629497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2013.6629497","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents AIDA (Affective Intelligent Driving Agent), a social robot that acts as a friendly, in-car companion. AIDA is designed to use the driver's mobile device as its face. The phone displays facial expressions and is the main computational unit to manage information presented to the driver. We conducted an experiment in which participants were placed in a mock in-car environment and completed driving tasks while stress-inducing phone and vehicle notifications occurred throughout the interaction. Users performed the task with the help of: 1) a smartphone, 2) the AIDA persona with the phone mounted on a static dock, or 3) the AIDA persona attached to a robot. Results revealed that AIDA users felt less stressed throughout the interaction, performed vehicle safety precautions more often, and felt more companionship with AIDA as compared to smartphone users. Further, participants developed a deeper bond with AIDA as a social robot compared to AIDA as a static, expressive agent.","PeriodicalId":251198,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)","volume":"3 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129198823","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":"Dynamic side-view mirror: Assisting situation awareness in blind spots","authors":"J. Kuwana, M. Itoh, T. Inagaki","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2013.6629510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2013.6629510","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a novel driver assistance system for enhancing driver recognition of vehicles in blind spots when executing lane changes. The system changes the yaw angle of the host vehicle's side-view mirror when another vehicle is in the blind spot. There are two design alternatives: (1) the system dynamically changes the side-view mirror angle or (2) the system turns on a lamp in addition to dynamically changing the side-view mirror angle. A cognitive experiment with a driving simulator was conducted for investigating system efficacy and influence on situation awareness of the driver. The results of this experiment show that the lamp may not be necessary and that both systems were effective when another vehicle was in the host vehicle's right blind spot.","PeriodicalId":251198,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127867963","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":"High-performance visual odometry with two-stage local binocular BA and GPU","authors":"W. Lu, Z. Xiang, Jilin Liu","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2013.6629614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2013.6629614","url":null,"abstract":"Visual odometry becomes an important method to deal the localization work in intelligent vehicle and robotics. A high performance visual odometry needs to achieve two requirements: high accuracy and high frequency. So we propose a two-stage local binocular bundle adjustment algorithm doing the optimization and construct a parallel pipeline using GPU acceleration. Finally, our system can run at about 35~40 frames per second with the maximum RMS 3D localization error less than 1%.","PeriodicalId":251198,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120963835","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":"CADAS: A multimodal advanced driver assistance system for normal urban streets based on road context understanding","authors":"Chunzhao Guo, J. Meguro, Y. Kojima, T. Naito","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2013.6629475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2013.6629475","url":null,"abstract":"Comprehensive situational awareness is paramount to the effectiveness of higher-level functions of the advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) used in daily urban traffic, in which, the host vehicle have to interact with other cars. This paper addresses a multimodal advanced driver assistance system, which we call CADAS (Contextual ADAS), designed for expanding the usability of current ADAS functions, including LKA, ACC, and PCS, to normal urban streets, particularly for non-marking roads. In the proposed system, the relational contexts between the host vehicle, the road and other vehicles are employed for both the low level object detection improvement and the high level scene understanding and decision making. Experimental results in various typical but challenging scenarios show the effectiveness of the proposed system.","PeriodicalId":251198,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123924134","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":"Obstacle avoidance via social mediation in cooperative payload transportation","authors":"Ronal Singh, S. Lal, J. Vanualailai","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2013.6629494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2013.6629494","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a negotiation-based obstacle avoidance scheme for teams involved in cooperative load transportation. A decentralised behaviour-based cooperative control coordinates the team's motion. The negotiation protocol is implemented as one of the behaviours within the control scheme, and utilises explicit and local communication. We tested the cooperative control in simulation and show that the cooperative control is successful as well as scalable and robust. We also demonstrate the strength of the fuzzy logic based motion controllers in mitigating the effects of approximate team heading.","PeriodicalId":251198,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115766232","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":"Multi-lane detection in urban driving environments using conditional random fields","authors":"Junhwa Hur, Seung-Nam Kang, S. Seo","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2013.6629645","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2013.6629645","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past few decades, the need has arisen for multi-lane detection algorithms for use in vehicle safety-related applications. In this paper we propose a new multi-lane detection algorithm that works well in urban situations. This algorithm detects four lane marks, including driving lane marks and adjacent lane marks. Conventional research assumes that lanes are parallel. In contrast, our approach does not require this assumption, thus enabling the algorithm to manage various non-parallel lane situations, such as are found at intersections, in splitting lanes, and in merging lanes. To detect multi-lane marks successfully in the absence of parallelism, we adopt Conditional Random Fields (CRFs), which are strong models for solving multiple association tasks. We show that CRFs are very effective tools for multi-lane detection because they find an optimal association of multiple lane marks in complex and challenging urban road situations. Through simulations, and by using video sequences with 752-480 resolution and Caltech Lane Datasets with runtime rates of 30 fps, we verify that our algorithm successfully detects non-parallel lanes as well as parallel lanes appearing in urban streets.","PeriodicalId":251198,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131097225","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":"Weighted V-disparity approach for obstacles localization in highway environments","authors":"Nizar Fakhfakh, D. Gruyer, D. Aubert","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2013.6629641","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2013.6629641","url":null,"abstract":"The employment of embedded passive sensors in order to perceive environment for reducing the accident risk level is a tendency of intelligent vehicles research. From such sensors, one can extract useful informations which can assist the driver to identify hazardous situations. While safety improvement is a substantial requirement for driving assistance, localizing and tracking obstacles in complex road environment became an important task. One promising approach is to use the V-disparity based on the stereovision technique. It is a cumulative space estimated from the disparity image. We propose a sound framework and a complete system based on a real-time stereovision for detection, 3D localization and tracking of dynamic obstacles in highway environment. The main contribution we propose is the improvement of the V-disparity approach by extending the basic approach by merging it with a confidence term. This consists on weighting each pixel in the V-disparity space according to a confidence value which measures the probability of associating a pair of pixels. Furthermore, we propose a tracking system which is based on the belief theory. The tracking task is done on the image space which takes into account uncertainties, handles conflicts, and automatically dealt with targets appearance and disappearce as well as their spatial and temporal propogation. Extensive experiments on simulated and real dataset demonstrate the effectiveness and the robustness of the weighted V-disparity approach.","PeriodicalId":251198,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130860051","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":"Active safety for vulnerable road users based on smartphone position data","authors":"Martin Liebner, F. Klanner, C. Stiller","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2013.6629479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2013.6629479","url":null,"abstract":"Smartphones have long become an omnipresent part of our life. Equipped with both a broadband internet connection and advanced GPS onboard sensors, the idea is to use them as mobile sensors for active safety systems that aim at protecting vulnerable road users such as pedestrians or cyclists. This paper gives a comprehensive analysis of today's smartphones GPS accuracy on an inner-city bicycle track. In addition, the transmission latencies of a prototypical bicycle warning system are evaluated. The results show that while the lateral deviations are still too high to allow for lane-level localization, the longitudinal accuracy as well as the transmission latencies are good enough for many active safety applications already.","PeriodicalId":251198,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130870551","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":"Analytical study of the IEEE 802.11p EDCA mechanism","authors":"Wei Sun, Hesheng Zhang, Cheng Pan, Jun Yang","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2013.6629667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2013.6629667","url":null,"abstract":"The Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) mechanism has been adopted by media access control (MAC) layer of IEEE 802.11p to provide contention-based differentiated channel access for packets with different priorities. To analyze the performance of EDCA mechanism, the two-dimensional Markov chain model with the different contention windows(CW) and the internal collision and the frozen mechanism, has been proposed to calculate the normalized throughput and the time delay. The results show that the normalized throughput decreases and the time delay increases with the number of vehicles increasing; and the packets with higher priority have a larger numerical value of normalized throughput and lower time delay than the lower priority packets. The delay for high priority ACs satisfy their requirements, which verify that the IEEE 802.11p EDCA can provide effective service for the safety related time critical applications.","PeriodicalId":251198,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130890840","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}