Time-to-Contact control for safety and reliability of self-driving cars

© 2017 IEEE. For safety and reliability of self-driving cars, their control system must use the relative velocity of vehicles. The relative velocity can be estimated by differentiating the measured distance between cars with respect to time. However, inevitable measurement noise in the distance meas...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wang, Liang, Horn, Berthold K. P.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/137560.2
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Summary:© 2017 IEEE. For safety and reliability of self-driving cars, their control system must use the relative velocity of vehicles. The relative velocity can be estimated by differentiating the measured distance between cars with respect to time. However, inevitable measurement noise in the distance measurements will be amplified by the derivative operation. In this paper, we provide, as an alternative, a time-To-contact based approach to estimating the relative velocity, which can also be fused with measurements from other sensors, if desired. The system is implemented on Android smart phones running in real-Time.