Ed
I don't know who is doing the Ford alert sensor. SSPIF is working on collision avoidance system with diamond rtos
Automatic Vehicle Guidance
C-VIS, Germany
3L Application Note
CARTRACK is a specialised stereo vision system used for automatic
vehicle guidance. The system can reliably detect, track and measure rear
or frontal views of automobiles in a dynamic image. There are four major
visual tasks the system has to cope with:
1.Detecting leading cars or other objects on the road
2.Accurate measurement of the dynamic image size of the individual cars
being tracked
3.Visual tracking of the objects while their image position and size
vary greatly
4.Classification of objects that are being tracked
In the picture, the leading car in the centre is being tracked and its
size is measured. The left car has just been detected and tracking is
initialised.
Real-time operation for such applications is achieved with an eight
processor TMS320C40 based VME system. The video signals are received by
special TIM-40 processor nodes which incorporate digitiser chips and
frame buffers. Stereo image acquisition is achieved by RGB colour
digitisers providing up to three channel simultaneous image capture.
"3L Diamond, the multi-processor upgrade to the TI tools, was chosen as
the software development platform. It allowed much faster development
than using the basic TI tools and supports easy integration of the image
processing subsystem into a PC environment." -- Thomas Zielke, president
of C-VIS.
VISIONBUMBER and SIDEVIEW are other video-based obstacle detection
systems for short range "all round" surveillance of automatically guided
vehicles. Applications include blind spot surveillance and lane keeping
assistance.
threel.co.uk
The current listed NA customers
North America
AT&T, Canadian Defense Research Establishment, Canadian Space Agency,
Communications Research Center, General Motors Research Laboratory, GTE
Government Systems, ITT, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Lockheed Martin,
Motorola, Naval Air Warfare Center, Naval Underwater Warfare Center,
Naval Surface Warfare Center, Pixar, Sandia National Labs, US DoD |
