Section: New Results

Conception of a new communicative system for the protection of vulnerable people

Participants : Pierre Merdrignac, Evangeline Pollard, Oyunchimeg Shagdar, Fawzi Nashashibi.

A new research has been recently launched at IMARA team. The goal is to elaborate a new communicative system between vulnerable people (pedestrian, person with reduced mobility, bicyclist, etc.) and intelligent vehicles in order to improve safety and to limit collision risk. The main idea of this project is as follows. Intelligent vehicles are equipped with an obstacle detection/classification /tracking module in order to prevent injuries. On the other hand, to help the driver in this challenging task, vulnerable people use an application on their mobile phone to inform/share their status on location, type, and dynamics. The status information is transmitted to the driver utilizing wireless communications technology (e.g., 3G and Wi-Fi). In the vehicle, information coming from the communications device and obstacle detection module will be merged to improve the detection and classification tasks. In case of emergency, the vehicle can broadcast safety information to vulnerable people.