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A Next-Generation Intelligent Car for Safe Drive
Takashi Emura, Masaaki Kumagai, and Lei Wang
Department of Mechatronics Engineering, Tohoku University, 01 Aramaki-Aoba, Aobaku, Sendai 980-8579, Japan
Received:September 26, 2000Accepted:September 26, 2000Published:October 20, 2000
Keywords:Autonomous land vehicle, Environment-sensor, Scanning laser range finder, Ultrasonic sensor
Abstract
This paper describes the fundamental development of an intelligent car whose safety is improved by using environment-sensors. Because the most important key parts in this intelligent car are environment-sensors, we developed mainly two kinds of sensors. One is a compact scanning laser range finder whose makdng cost is sufficiently low. The other is a new type ultrasonic sensor whose detectable range is very long. Because this ultrasonic sensor is a nonscanning type and detects the position of object from the phase differences of sound waves that arrive at four microphones, the detection time is short enough. We used a CCD camera together with those sensors for rapid recognition of objects and canied out basic experiments of an intelligent car.
Cite this article as:T. Emura, M. Kumagai, and L. Wang, “A Next-Generation Intelligent Car for Safe Drive,” J. Robot. Mechatron., Vol.12 No.5, pp. 545-551, 2000.Data files:
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