Road edge detection based on LIDAR laser

Research about vehicle recognition and adaptive cruise control is emerging recently, using various sensory resources. There are many sensors like cameras, GPS, accelerometers, radars etc., which are used for detecting edges of the road, traffic signs, cars or pedestrians. There are many different sensors to access the objects´ data information. This paper presents defining the width of the road and cars. To accomplish this task the multilayer LIDAR (Light, Detection and Ranging) sensor is used. All data is graphically represented in two-dimensional space. In this paper such methods like k-mean clustering, canny edge detection, Hough method, Theil-Sen estimator are using. The process is conducted in MATLAB environment.