Figure 8 shows a snapshot of the console during
one of our field tests while approaching one of the
three curve sections in the test segment. We evaluated
the accuracy of the algorithm by marking down the
distance where the warning was issued while driving
at different speeds. Each time, the curve was
successfully detected and the warning was shown at
the appropriate safe distance. We also evaluated the
system for lane departure warning by intentionally
making many back and forth lane changes on both
straight and curved sections of the test segment.
Those results have already been published elsewhere
(Muhammad Faizan et al. 2019).
4 CONCLUSIONS
Previously we proposed and demonstrated a novel
algorithm to detect an unintentional lane departure
and warn the driver in time. Now we have added
another feature in this algorithm which can detect an
upcoming curve and determines its advisory speed.
We designed the algorithm for this added feature and
demonstrated in the field by developing a prototype
system. Extensive field tests were performed to
evaluate the efficiency of the newly developed
algorithm on two different road segments. The
advance curve detection algorithm can detect the
upcoming curve and correctly determines its advisory
speed before issuing the appropriate warning at a safe
distance before the curve starts. We have performed
error analysis for the lane departure detection part of
this work but both the temporal and spatial scale
involved in an upcoming curve detection are large
enough to be ignored. An error in an upcoming curve
detection, can be up to 25 m in location which
translates to 1 second in time, is insignificant for
this feature.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors wish to acknowledge those who made
this research possible. The study was funded by the
Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT)
and Minnesota Local Research Board (LRRB).
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