Markus Straßberger

A new Approach for Obstacle Detection Based on Dynamic Vehicle Behaviour

Inter-vehicle communication has been one of the most emerging fields of interest in the automobile industry during the past few years. It is considered as one key enabler for active safety and fore-sighted driving assistance services. A very prominent example is a local danger warning service. Vehicles instantaneously inform others about critical situations like aquaplaning, accidents or obstacles on the road. The detection of such environmental conditions should be accomplished by means of already available and widely deployed onboard sensors. In this paper we present a new efficient and light-weight approach to estimate the existence of an obstacle, based only on the vehicles’ driving dynamics. The approach is evaluated in terms of contribution to the application domain, operability and reliability. A prototype implementation is described and first results from real track driving tests are presented.