{"title":"Extremum Seeking-Based Braking Friction Force Maximization Algorithm Using Fuzzy Logic Without Slip Ratio for ABSs","authors":"Jinwoo Ha;Sesun You;Young-jin Ko;Wonhee Kim","doi":"10.1109/TIV.2024.3430816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TIV.2024.3430816","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose an extremum seeking-based algorithm using fuzzy logic for maximizing the braking friction force in anti-lock brake systems (ABSs) without relying on vehicle speed information and slip ratio dynamics. Many current ABSs algorithms utilize slip ratio as a control parameter. If the slip ratio is inaccurately measured, the braking performance of the ABSs may not be optimal. To address this, we propose a method to achieve maximum friction force by designing a reference generator that generates the control inputs for the ABSs without requiring slip ratio information. We design an extended state observer that can estimate the braking friction force and braking friction coefficient. Based on the estimated friction force, the desired wheel cylinder pressure (WCP), which is the control input of the hydraulic brake system, is generated to converge to the maximum friction force using the extremum seeking control algorithm. To achieve improved braking performance, the initial desired WCP is calculated using fuzzy logic for quick convergence to the optimal region. The proposed method is experimentally validated using a hardware-in-the-loop simulation, which includes components such as MATLAB/Simulink, CarSim, SCALEXIO real-time system, and a hydraulic brake system.","PeriodicalId":36532,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles","volume":"9 8","pages":"5272-5283"},"PeriodicalIF":14.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142600239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ruohong Mei;Wei Sui;Jiaxin Zhang;Xue Qin;Gang Wang;Tao Peng;Tao Chen;Cong Yang
{"title":"RoMe: Towards Large Scale Road Surface Reconstruction via Mesh Representation","authors":"Ruohong Mei;Wei Sui;Jiaxin Zhang;Xue Qin;Gang Wang;Tao Peng;Tao Chen;Cong Yang","doi":"10.1109/TIV.2024.3417512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TIV.2024.3417512","url":null,"abstract":"In autonomous driving applications, accurate and efficient road surface reconstruction is paramount. This paper introduces RoMe, a novel framework designed for the robust reconstruction of large-scale road surfaces. Leveraging a unique mesh representation, RoMe ensures that the reconstructed road surfaces are accurate and seamlessly aligned with semantics. To address challenges in computational efficiency, we propose a waypoint sampling strategy, enabling RoMe to reconstruct vast environments by focusing on sub-areas and subsequently merging them. Furthermore, we incorporate an extrinsic optimization module to enhance the robustness against inaccuracies in extrinsic calibration. Our extensive evaluations of both public datasets and wild data underscore RoMe's superiority in terms of speed, accuracy, and robustness. For instance, it costs only 2 GPU hours to recover a road surface of \u0000<inline-formula><tex-math>$600times 600$</tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000 square meters from thousands of images. Notably, RoMe's capability extends beyond mere reconstruction, offering significant value for auto-labeling tasks in autonomous driving applications.","PeriodicalId":36532,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles","volume":"9 7","pages":"5173-5185"},"PeriodicalIF":14.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142320504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Intelligent Sensor-Based Back Seat Monitoring System for Preventing Pediatric Vehicular Heatstroke","authors":"Leila Sharara;Klaus Thelen;Jonas Gillner;Jan Wolf;Hadi Syed;Hibah Syed;Roy Taylor;Laxmi Shankar;Matthias Berger;Daniel Forta;Sandro Rogowski;Ines Hornung;Lubna Alazzawi;Mohammed Ismail","doi":"10.1109/TIV.2024.3408842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TIV.2024.3408842","url":null,"abstract":"This research introduces an innovative automotive child back seat monitoring system aimed at preventing heatstroke incidents associated with leaving children unattended in vehicles. The device integrates sensors, wireless connectivity, and intelligent algorithms to detect and respond to potential risks. Internal sensors continuously monitor factors such as occupancy status, in-vehicle temperature, and the child's respiration rate in real-time. A hybrid approach is adopted for enhanced accuracy, utilizing Force Sensing Resistor (FSR) sensors for presence and breathing detection, along with motion sensors for movement tracking. Intelligent algorithms process the data to identify critical conditions and activate preventive measures. Data is transmitted through a mobile application for immediate alerts to caregivers. The system incorporates a Simplified Frequency Analysis (SFA) for rapid processing, surpassing conventional methods by up to 80 times faster on a low-cost Microcontroller (MC), which makes it ideal for real-time applications. Testing results confirm its high accuracy in real-time occupancy detection and breath monitoring, triggering alerts as needed. The proposed system meets rigorous automotive industry standards for temperature and power requirements, ensuring optimal functionality and energy efficiency in extreme environments. With a minimal standby current of 104 <inline-formula><tex-math>$mu$</tex-math></inline-formula>A and the ability to withstand temperatures from −40 <inline-formula><tex-math>$^{circ }$</tex-math></inline-formula>C to +85 <inline-formula><tex-math>$^{circ }$</tex-math></inline-formula>C, this technology has the potential to save lives and establish child heatstroke prevention as a standard vehicle feature.","PeriodicalId":36532,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles","volume":"9 11","pages":"7176-7192"},"PeriodicalIF":14.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144511186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dream to Drive With Predictive Individual World Model","authors":"Yinfeng Gao;Qichao Zhang;Da-Wei Ding;Dongbin Zhao","doi":"10.1109/TIV.2024.3408830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TIV.2024.3408830","url":null,"abstract":"It is still a challenging topic to make reactive driving behaviors in complex urban environments as road users' intentions are unknown. Model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) offers great potential to learn a reactive policy by constructing a world model that can provide informative states and imagination training. However, a critical limitation in relevant research lies in the scene-level reconstruction representation learning, which may overlook key interactive vehicles and hardly model the interactive features among vehicles and their long-term intentions. Therefore, this paper presents a novel MBRL method with a predictive individual world model (PIWM) for autonomous driving. PIWM describes the driving environment from an individual-level perspective and captures vehicles' interactive relations and their intentions via trajectory prediction task. Meanwhile, a behavior policy is learned jointly with PIWM. It is trained in PIWM's imagination and effectively navigates in the urban driving scenes leveraging intention-aware latent states. The proposed method is trained and evaluated on simulation environments built upon real-world challenging interactive scenarios. Compared with popular model-free and state-of-the-art model-based reinforcement learning methods, experimental results show that the proposed method achieves the best performance in terms of safety and efficiency.","PeriodicalId":36532,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles","volume":"9 12","pages":"8224-8238"},"PeriodicalIF":14.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144597947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multiagent Reinforcement Learning: Methods, Trustworthiness, Applications in Intelligent Vehicles, and Challenges","authors":"Ziyuan Zhou;Guanjun Liu;Ying Tang","doi":"10.1109/TIV.2024.3408257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TIV.2024.3408257","url":null,"abstract":"Multiagent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) plays a pivotal role in intelligent vehicle systems, offering solutions for complex decision-making, coordination, and adaptive behavior among autonomous agents. This review aims to highlight the importance of fostering trust in MARL and emphasize the significance of MARL in revolutionizing intelligent vehicle systems. First, this paper summarizes the fundamental methods of MARL. Second, it identifies the limitations of MARL in safety, robustness, generalization, and ethical constraints and outlines the corresponding research methods. Then we summarize their applications in intelligent vehicle systems. Considering human interaction is essential to practical applications of MARL in various domains, the paper also analyzes the challenges associated with MARL's applications in human-machine systems. These challenges, when overcome, could significantly enhance the real-world implementation of MARL-based intelligent vehicle systems.","PeriodicalId":36532,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles","volume":"9 12","pages":"8190-8211"},"PeriodicalIF":14.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144597587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Universal Crack Detection Framework for Intelligent Road-Perceptive Vehicles","authors":"Senyun Kuang;Yang Liu;Xin Wang;Xiaobo Qu;Yintao Wei","doi":"10.1109/TIV.2024.3408649","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TIV.2024.3408649","url":null,"abstract":"Crack detection is essential for ensuring road safety and preserving the integrity of infrastructure. As intelligent transportation systems mature, vehicles equipped with crack detection capabilities have become more sophisticated. Traditional methods for detecting cracks have relied on designing complex networks, which can be time-consuming and may obscure the task's underlying simplicity, posing challenges for researchers and hindering integration into road-perceptive vehicles. This paper introduces an innovative, universal framework for crack detection that circumvents these issues by utilizing existing pre-trained segmentation methods with visual prompts. We introduce the visual crack prompt (VCP) mechanism, which refines the focus of pre-trained models on high-frequency features, significantly improving their ability to identify and segment specific crack features. Additionally, we present the diverse crack detection 1 K dataset (DCD1K), comprising 1000 images of 16 different crack types, to validate the VCP mechanism's effectiveness. Our experimental results showcase the framework's outstanding performance across six distinct datasets, highlighting its potential to revolutionize crack detection methods.","PeriodicalId":36532,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles","volume":"9 12","pages":"8212-8223"},"PeriodicalIF":14.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144597585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From RAG/RAT to SAGE for Social Transportation: A CoT and New Perspective on Smart Logistics and Mobility","authors":"Fei-Yue Wang","doi":"10.1109/TIV.2024.3426992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TIV.2024.3426992","url":null,"abstract":"Dear All","PeriodicalId":36532,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles","volume":"9 6","pages":"5005-5008"},"PeriodicalIF":14.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141965415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enhancement Technology for Perception in Smart Mining Vehicles: 4D Millimeter-Wave Radar and Multi-Sensor Fusion","authors":"Jianjian Yang;Tianmu Gui;Yuyuan Zhang;Shirong Ge;Qiankun Huang;Guanghui Zhao","doi":"10.1109/TIV.2024.3427718","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TIV.2024.3427718","url":null,"abstract":"Advancements in 4D mmWave radar with multi-sensor fusion have significantly enhanced the robustness of autonomous driving systems. In the context of “Mining 5.0” based on parallel intelligence theory, autonomous haulage need to achieve full autonomy in open-pit mines. Current systems use 3D mmWave radar, LiDAR, and cameras but have limited automation progress. This perspective discusses the limitations of these systems and how integrating 4D mmWave radar can improve mining autonomy. This perspective results from discussions at several recent Distributed/Decentralized Hybrid Workshops on Autonomous Mining (DHW-AM) and aims at enhancing the intelligence of future mining operations.","PeriodicalId":36532,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles","volume":"9 6","pages":"5009-5013"},"PeriodicalIF":14.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141965412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}