scholarly journals Universal Automobile Headlight Control Module for High Beam Adaptation during Night Vision Travel an Embedded Design Approach

Author(s):  
M. Subramania Siva ◽  
G. Jeyakumar

Road accidents during night travel increases day by day and vision impairment due to high beam contributes to the majority of the total fatalities. Headlights of vehicles pose a great danger during night driving. [1] The drivers of most vehicles use high/bright beam while driving at night. This causes a discomfort to the person travelling from the opposite direction. The driver experiences a sudden glare caused due to the high intense headlight beam from the other vehicle coming towards him from the opposite direction. We are expected to dim the headlight to avoid this glare. This glare causes a temporary blindness to a person resulting in road accidents during the night. To avoid such incidents, an embedded prototype of Automatic Headlight adaptor module is proposed. This embedded module automatically switches the high beam to low beam and returns backs to high beam, thus reducing the sudden glare effect. It also eliminates the requirement of manual switching by the driver to switch back to low beam Universal Headlight adaptor module is a unique solution to achieve the above<strong> </strong>objective,<strong> </strong>the headlight intensity of the incoming vehicles causing the glare is automatically attenuated to low beam wirelessly by the nearby vehicles affected by high beam. The interconnected modules at every vehicle independently takes the decision on the head light control of the source vehicle causing the glare by evaluating various parameters like vehicle speed, current GPS location, direction of vehicle etc.

Author(s):  
Vani Valsaraj

Road accidents have been very common in the present world with prime cause being careless driving. It is very necessary to identify the careless driver. However, with the advancement in the technology, different governing bodies are demanding some sort of computerized technology to control the driving speed of drivers. At this scenario, we are proposing system to detect vehicle speed been driven the given maximum speed of vehicles the respective roads or highway limits.


1983 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andris Freivalds ◽  
Jeffrey L. Harpster ◽  
Lisa S. Heckman

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.31) ◽  
pp. 72
Author(s):  
K N. V. Satyanarayana ◽  
G Yaswanthini ◽  
P L. Kartheeka ◽  
N Rajkumar

Now-a-days road accidents are occurring frequently, due to rash driving of people.  The most unfortunate thing is that by making small mistakes during driving, we lost our valuable future. If we observe, most of the accidents will occur at school zones, parks, hospitals, hill areas and highways. Even a police also can’t monitor all such kind of accidents. So in order to reduce the number of accidents and to control the vehicle speed the highway department has placed the signboards. But it is difficult to observe such kind of signboards and hence accidents will occur. This paper will provide a new way for controlling the speed of the vehicle without harming others. In this paper, we are using RFID module to limit vehicle speed. The RF transmitter will be placed at first and last of the restricted areas and RFID receiver should be placed inside the vehicle. The vehicle speed was obtained by speedometer which is available in vehicle. And that speed is compared and monitored by the controller. If the vehicle speed exceeds the limited speed, It automatically controls the speed of the vehicle according to that particular zone. Hence, automatically the speed reduced. If there is any emergency, a switch will be available in the vehicle. When the switch is ON, the speed is not controlled automatically. The vehicle which is switched ON, that vehicle number was stored in cloud. Here the main purpose of cloud is it loads the route map of the vehicle.  


Author(s):  
Aman Gupta

Abstract: Automatic High Beam controller is a device made due to the rising number of accidents at night because of LED headlamps temporarily affecting the vision of the driver on the opposite lane. According to AAA, LED lights do a much better job of illuminating the roadway, particularly in the low-beam application versus a halogen reflector at 150 feet more during testing. But, still, that brings the max vehicle speed to about 52 miles an hour, which is still falling short of highway speeds. So, the users are suggested to drive with high beam on if there is no oncoming traffic within a reasonable distance and the roadway is improperly lit. But in practice most people drive with the high beam settings in places with or without traffic great from the user's standpoint. However, even on low beam, they have such a high intensity that on 2-lane roads, especially when the oncoming driver of a car or small pickup approaches the LED equipped truck at night, in rain, fog, or snow the oncoming driver is blinded at a level equal to or greater than if the LED equipped vehicle were using conventional halogen high beams. This device is made without distance or ambient lighting being deciding factors and entirely based on user’s discretion. The transmitter model is fitted with a button that sends a signal to the receiver model using nrf24L01 modules and AT Mega 8 microcontroller (programmed using Arduino UNO). The pressing of button causes the state of the button to be set to HIGH. This signals the receiving circuit to set the LED pin to LOW. Therefore, the High Beam is set to Low Beam for 5 seconds when the impulse is received. Due to the use of H4 C6 headlamps which are rated for 36W with a minimum power requirement of 12W an adapter was connected to convert 220V AC supply to 12V, 3A DC supply for the LED and the rest of the circuit.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 4240-4244

In an automotive, the headlights are the most needed equipment to help the drivers to get a proper viewing at night. Major difficulties of visibility while driving at night will be either due to bad weather conditions or due to approaching vehicles high beam striking on the driver. High beams create a problem called glare which makes the driver have partial blindness for a small-time period. The solution for this glaring effect is to either deviate the incident high beam light of the vehicles or to reduce the brightness of the light so that the glare caused can be reduced. This work is an experiment to show how the glare can be reduced by reducing the brightness of the high beam light, by taking inputs of the vehicle speed and proportionally altering the voltage supplied to the head-lamps. With embedded C program language, an experimental setup was made where the voltage supply to the bulb is controlled according to the program. This results in reducing the luminous of the light source. This methodology can be adapted to the existing vehicles


1983 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 324-328
Author(s):  
Andris Freivalds ◽  
Jeffrey L. Harpster ◽  
Lisa S. Heckman

Glare sensitivity, night vision and glare recovery measures on a night-driving vision tester were collected on 60 students, of whom 34 had uncorrected vision, 18 wore corneal contact lenses and 8 wore spectacles. An analysis of variance disclosed significant decrements in glare sensitivity and night vision for those with corrected vision. Further analysis with a pairwise comparison on contact and spectacle wearers showed hard contact lenses to be worst, followed by soft contact lenses and spectacles. A concern for the ability and safety of corrective lens wearers during nicht driving is indicated.


2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (0) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Sandra Jakulytė ◽  
Virgaudas Puodžiukas

Usually, during the implementing the traffic safety policy, it is often decided to install a roundabout at an emergency junction. The reason is that roundabouts have long been considered the safest intersections due to the low number of conflict points and features to reduce vehicle speed. Unfortunately, the design of circular junctions is a responsible process, during which it is necessary to take into account not only the indicators of traffic safety but also the functional purpose of the road. It is known that the roads are classified according to their functional purpose into 3 groups: transit, connecting and access. By these groups in foreign countries are regulated geometric parameters of roads, possible types of intersections and design classes. Transit roads are subject to the highest requirements, because on these roads predominate uninterrupted traffic flow (the change in speed cannot be more than 10%) and a significant proportion of heavy-cargo vehicles, and the roundabout in such a path causes chaos due to its ability to reduce vehicle speeds (the speed drops by more than 10%). Lithuania faces a problem due to the lack of regulation of the implementation of roundabouts, the traffic congestion of vehicles, fuel consumption, traffic and increase in road accidents. It is not enough to analyze only the average annual daily traffic to design and install a roundabout. It is necessary to take into account the functional purpose of the road, the directional distribution of traffic at the intersection, the 30th-highest hour of traffic volume, capacity and level of service, in other words, to carry out a thorough analysis and research. In this article, there is the analysis of the annular intersection at the A4 Vilnius–Varėna–Gardinas 101.7 km highway. The research determines whether the level of service of the roundabouts meet road level of service according to the functional purpose of the road. Santrauka Vykdant eismo saugumo užtikrinimo politiką, dažnai priimamas sprendimas avaringoje sankryžoje įrengti žiedinę sankryžą. To priežastis yra ta, kad žiedinės sankryžos ilgą laiką buvo laikomos saugiausiomis sankryžomis dėl mažo konfliktinių taškų skaičiaus ir savybės sumažinti transporto priemonių greitį. Deja, žiedinių sankryžų projektavimas atsakingas procesas, kurio metu būtina atsižvelgti ne tik į eismo saugumo rodiklius, tačiau ir į kelio, kuriame ji projektuojama, funkcinę paskirtį. Kaip žinoma, keliai skirstomi pagal savo funkcinę paskirtį į 3 grupes: tranzitiniai, jungiamieji ir privažiavimo, pagal šias grupes užsienio šalyse reglamentuojami kelių geometriniai rodikliai, galimi sankryžų tipai, projektavimo klasės. Tranzitiniams keliams taikomi aukščiausi reikalavimai, nes tokiuose keliuose vyrauja tolygus eismas (važiavimo greičio pokytis negali būti didesnis nei 10 %), didelė sunkiasvorių transporto priemonių dalis eisme, o žiedinė sankryža tokiame kelyje sukelia chaosą dėl savo savybės sumažinti transporto priemonių greitį (greitis mažėja daugiau nei 10 %). Lietuva susiduria su problema – dėl netinkamo žiedinių sankryžų rengimo reglamentavimo valstybinės reikšmės keliuose susidaro transporto priemonių spūstys, didėja kuro sąnaudos, dažnai padaugėja ir eismo įvykių. Norint projektuoti ir įrengti žiedinę sankryžą, neužtenka analizuoti vien vidutinio metinio paros eismo intensyvumo, būtina atsižvelgti į kelio funkcinę paskirtį, kryptinį srautų pasiskirstymą sankryžoje, 30-osios valandos eismo intensyvumą, eismo pralaidumą ir eismo kokybės rodiklius, t. y. atlikti išsamius tyrimus ir analizes. Straipsnyje analizuojama žiedinė sankryža, esanti valstybinės reikšmės magistraliniame kelyje A4 Vilnius–Varėna–Gardinas 101,7 km, tyrimo metu nustatoma, ar žiedinės sankryžos eismo kokybės rodikliai atitinka kelio eismo kokybės rodiklius pagal kelio funkcinę paskirtį.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-52
Author(s):  
Natraj N.A ◽  
Bhavani S

The road crash is one of the significant problems that is of great concern in today's world. Road accidents are often caused by drivers' carelessness and negligence. The drowsy condition of the drivers, which occurs due to overwork, fatigue, and many other factors, is one of those causes. It is therefore most critical to establish systems that can detect the driver's drowsy state and provide the drivers with the appropriate warning system. In addition to the automatic speed control of the car, this system thus supports drivers in incidents by providing warnings in advance. This means that road collisions that are harmful to living lives are minimised. This is achieved by using the technique of image recognition, where driver drowsiness is observed, and using this method, simultaneous warning and speed monitoring of the vehicle is carried out.


1978 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-55
Author(s):  
Martin Helander ◽  
John O. Merritt ◽  
Charles Abrams

The effect of different headlight patterns on driving performance was investigated during test drives along a 8-km rural highway. Eighteen subjects drove the test course once for each of the three headlight conditions: low beam, high beam, and low-plus-high beam. Continuous recordings were obtained of vehicle speed, brake pressure, acceleration, steering wheel angle, and lane position. Response profiles for average and 1 S.D. of response were plotted as a function of distance along the test course. ANOVA showed small but statistically significant illumination effects for average speed, average lane position, and standard deviation of steering wheel position and fore-aft accelerations. It was concluded that the test course may have been too difficult and thus may have limited effects of illumination conditions on the driving performance measures obtained in this first phase of testing.


2019 ◽  
Vol 262 ◽  
pp. 05015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr Tomczuk ◽  
Kazimierz Jamroz ◽  
Tomasz Mackun ◽  
Marcin Chrzanowicz

For many years now in Poland there has been a large number of road accidents at pedestrian crossings during night periods [5, 11]. One of the technical solutions that can improve this condition is the use of proper lighting for pedestrian crossings. The designated pedestrian crossing should be visible in different weather conditions and at different times of the day. In case of night vision restrictions use artificial lighting of pedestrian crossings. At the same time, lighting of pedestrian crossings should ensure: proper conditions for the driver to recognise the traffic situation and observe the pedestrian's silhouette, and for the pedestrian to observe the surroundings, pedestrian crossings and upcoming vehicles. The article gives an opinion on the proposal of lighting requirements for dedicated luminaires, realizing positive luminance contrast, used in the area of pedestrian crossings together with the proposed measurement grids. Quantitative requirements have been formulated taking into account the gradation of lighting classes resulting from the current lighting standard.


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