Test Vehicle at Moffett Federal Airfield

Current Graduate Researchers

• Kirstin Talvala

Past Doctoral Students

• Eric Rossetter
• Josh Switkes

Sponsors

Volkswagen AutoUni
The National Science Foundation

Description

The goal of this research is to incorporate collision avoidance into driver assistance systems. The approach uses artificial potential fields to represent environmental hazards such as lane edges. A control force proportional to the slope of this artificial field is applied to the vehicle using steering and differential braking to aid the driver in avoiding collisions.

Basic Potential Field Concept

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