Active blind spot crash avoidance system: A haptic solution to blind spot collisions

Author

Racine, David P. ; Cramer, Nicholas B. ; Zadeh, Mehrdad H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Kettering Univ., Flint, MI, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

16-17 Oct. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Blind spots are a nuisance of everyday driving that cause a significant number of accidents every year. Current blind spot systems mainly take advantage of visual feedback for the driver. However, an active blind spot system physically involves the driver to help reduce the number of overall accidents. In this paper, a force-feedback gas pedal and a force-feedback steering wheel are used in conjunction with a driving simulator to improve upon existing blind spot detection and avoidance systems. Preliminary human testing results show that by adding an active blind spot crash avoidance system to the already visual blind spot light can help to reduce the number of collisions.

Keywords

collision avoidance; digital simulation; force feedback; haptic interfaces; road traffic; steering systems; traffic engineering computing; active blind spot system; crash avoidance system; force-feedback gas pedal; force-feedback steering wheel; haptic solution; visual blind spot light; visual feedback; Accidents; Driver circuits; Force; Mirrors; Testing; Visualization; Wheels; accelerator; active blind spot crash avoidance; driving simulator; force-feedback; gas pedal; steering wheel;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Haptic Audio-Visual Environments and Games (HAVE), 2010 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6507-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HAVE.2010.5623977

Filename

5623977