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Intelligent Speed Adaptation in vehicles

Date: 01/08/09

Tamil Eniyan. M
08MEA026
M.Tech-Automotive Electronics

Contents
Introduction
Existing speed adaptation techniques Need

System Overview
Block diagram Steps

Time plan Software tools Hardware modules Conclusion

Introduction
The Intelligent Speed Adaptation is done in vehicle using

GPS technology by tracking the location of the vehicle

This system does not require a preloaded map or route for its operation This system is a low cost and effective system which requires less memory and simple algorithm.

Existing speed adaptation techniques

RF id based systems
This system uses RF id tags on the sign boards, the receiver module in the vehicle receives the signal at various speed zones through these RF tags.
This systems can be employed only for slow vehicles. Practically it cannot be employed in the highway for vehicles with high speed like 100kmph

Optical recognition systems

This is done by camera based detection, the camera records continuously, when a sign boar is approached, the sign is recognized by image processing techniques.
This system uses complex algorithm Uses much resources Some critical cases when the sign board is covered by tree branches, the system does not detect the sign board.

Existing speed adaptation techniques

GPS based systems
The GPS receiver module tracks its position and using the pre loaded map and speed zone database, the speed adaptation is done
Requires a large memory to store the complete map and speed zone databases. Emergency sign boards like MEN AT WORK, TAKE DIVERSION etc. are not fed to the receiver dynamically.

Dead reckoning
Using sensors, it can plot the path taken by the vehicle. By overlaying this path onto a digital map, the DR system knows approximately where the vehicle is, what the local speed limit etc.
This system is much complicated with multiple sensors and possibility of deviation from actual data is high

Need for a new system

To over come the limitations of the other Speed adaptation systems. To reduce the memory requirement of conventional GPS speed adaptation techniques. To reduce the system cost and enhance the system performance to provide dynamic update of information.

Block Diagram
4
lat=12.970649 lon=79.159310

Speed controller

3
My position?

GPS Receiver RF Receiver

Controller

Memory

RF Tx

Display & Alert

TOLLGATE

Step 1
Transmitter sends a data to the vehicle. The data is a table of information of latitude and longitude and its corresponding road sign, speed limit..

Step 2
GPS receiver requests its position data to satellite.

Step 3
GPS receiver receives its position data from satellite.

lat=12.970649 long=79.159310

0001|76.11004|12.19256

A sample data from received data.

=?
YES

lat=12.970649 long=79.159310

Current Position From GPS

Step 4
The current position is compared with the data of table received. When the current position reaches the position of data, corresponding alert is done.

Check for the corresponding sign & speed limit

Alert the driver / Limit speed

Time plan
August September October November
Literature survey Selection of components/ Study about components selected
(microcontroller, GPS, Speed control)

Basic hardware design Full Hardware Implementation

(Speed Zone Detection & Alert)

December
January February March April

Programming Stage II development

(speed control implementation)

Project Completion Report Preparation

Software Tools
Microcontroller Programming tools
Keil IDE MPLAB IDE

Flashing tool

Hardware modules
GPS Receiver Microcontrollers Wireless Transmitter / Receiver Computer Interface Display unit Speed Control Module

Reference
N. Agerholm,R, Waagepetersen,N. Tradisauskas,and H. Lahrmann 2008 - IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium Intelligent Speed Adaptation in Company Vehicles Riaz Sayed, Pierre Delaigue, Jeremy Blum, Ali Mortazavi and Azim Eskandarian 2007-01-1321 SAE TECHNICAL PAPER SERIES Development of an Intelligent Multimode Speed Adaptation System European Road Safety Observatory Intelligent Speed Adaptation (ISA) http://www.erso.eu/knowledge/content/04_esave/ University of Leeds and MIRA Ltd. Intelligent Speed Adaptation Literature Review and scoping study- January 2006 http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/

Thank you