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Title:

IRIS: INTELLIGENT RANGING WITH INFRARED SENSORS
Cover of IRIS: INTELLIGENT RANGING WITH INFRARED SENSORS

Accession Number:

00800152

Record Type:

Monograph

Abstract:

The objective of this Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) project was the development of a new technology for ranging sensors called IRIS (Intelligent Ranging with Infrared Sensors). This technology has the potential to produce a new generation of sensors with significantly lower cost and substantially increased accuracy and reliability than any of the technologies available today. Such sensors would be useful in almost every aspect of ITS that requires knowledge of the position of the host vehicle relative to the vehicles around it and with respect to the roadway itself. This specific project focused on the simplest version of this sensor, called IRIS-1, which computes the distance relative to the preceding vehicle. The main accomplishment was the construction of a working prototype of the IRIS-1 sensor that was used to successfully perform a wide array of static and dynamic in-vehicle experiments. The report is organized in the following sections: Executive Summary; (1) General Description; (2) Prototype Sensor Hardware; (3) Prototype Sensor Software; (4) Experimental Results; (5) Conclusions; and (6) Dissemination and Publicity.

Supplemental Notes:

This ITS-IDEA project was conducted by the UCLA Electrical Engineering Department. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved

Report/Paper Numbers:

IDEA Project ITS-61,
Final Report

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Kanellakopoulos, I
Stafsudd, O M

Pagination:

38 p.

Publication Date:

2000

Serial:

ITS-IDEA Program Project Final Report

Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Features:

Figures; Tables

Uncontrolled Terms:

Hardware; Ranging technology

Subject Areas:

Bridges and other structures; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Vehicles and Equipment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety

Files:

NTL, TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Oct 10 2000 12:00AM