An Advanced Fuzzy Logic Based Traffic Controller

2015 ◽  
pp. 1490-1499
Author(s):  
Bilal Ahmed Khan ◽  
Nai Shyan Lai

Traffic light plays an important role in the urban traffic management. Therefore, it is necessary to improve the traffic controller for effective traffic management and better traffic flow leading to greener environment. In this paper, an advanced and intelligent traffic light controller is proposed, utilising the fuzzy logic technology and image processing technique. A fuzzy logic control has been implemented to provide the attribute of intelligence to the system. For real-time image acquisition, the process is further linked to the fuzzy logic controller which generates a unique output for each input pattern. Here image processing and fuzzy logic tool boxes of MATLAB are used where the final output is sent to Peripheral Interface Controller (PIC) microcontroller to drive the traffic signals in the desired manner. The results obtained show an improvement of 44% in the overall outcome of traffic management as compared to the conventional traffic controller, marking great feasibility and practicality of the current model.

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-40
Author(s):  
Bilal Ahmed Khan ◽  
Nai Shyan Lai

Traffic light plays an important role in the urban traffic management. Therefore, it is necessary to improve the traffic controller for effective traffic management and better traffic flow leading to greener environment. In this paper, an advanced and intelligent traffic light controller is proposed, utilising the fuzzy logic technology and image processing technique. A fuzzy logic control has been implemented to provide the attribute of intelligence to the system. For real-time image acquisition, the process is further linked to the fuzzy logic controller which generates a unique output for each input pattern. Here image processing and fuzzy logic tool boxes of MATLAB are used where the final output is sent to Peripheral Interface Controller (PIC) microcontroller to drive the traffic signals in the desired manner. The results obtained show an improvement of 44% in the overall outcome of traffic management as compared to the conventional traffic controller, marking great feasibility and practicality of the current model.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (12) ◽  
pp. 4053
Author(s):  
Yu-Hsien Lin ◽  
Chao-Ming Yu ◽  
Chia-Yu Wu

This study proposes the development of an underwater object-tracking control system through an image-processing technique. It is used for the close-range recognition and dynamic tracking of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) with an auxiliary light source for image processing. The image-processing technique includes color space conversion, target and background separation with binarization, noise removal with image filters, and image morphology. The image-recognition results become more complete through the aforementioned process. After the image information is obtained for the underwater object, the image area and coordinates are further adopted as the input values of the fuzzy logic controller (FLC) to calculate the rudder angle of the servomotor, and the propeller revolution speed is defined using the image information. The aforementioned experiments were all conducted in a stability water tank. Subsequently, the FLC was combined with an extended Kalman filter (EKF) for further dynamic experiments in a towing tank. Specifically, the EKF predicts new coordinates according to the original coordinates of an object to resolve data insufficiency. Consequently, several tests with moving speeds from 0.2 m/s to 0.8 m/s were analyzed to observe the changes in the rudder angles and the sensitivity of the propeller revolution speed.


Traffic light detection is crucial to decrease the traffic light accidents at intersections and to realize autonomous driving. There are so many existing methods to detect traffic light. However, these approaches have several limitations, such as not function well in complex driving environments. Hence, to overcome such constraints, the traffic light detection for the autonomous vehicle using image processing technique is proposed. The experiments are carried out using 114 scene images that consist of 209 traffic lights with different angles, weather conditions, and distance. An image processing technique, Hough Circle Transform is used in this traffic light detection system with the help of Gaussian blurring and Sobel filter. So, the overall accuracy rate for the proposed algorithm is 75.59%. This system is possible to be used in urban areas or complex environments, whether it is at night or day, and it able to detect the traffic light regardless of the colour changes.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3A) ◽  
pp. 134-142
Author(s):  
Ngoc Dung Bui ◽  
Dinh Tran Ngoc Huy ◽  
Tuan Thanh Nguyen

Traffic accidents occur frequently at intersections area because of conflicts among vehicles. Many researchers have been assessing traffic safety, however most of them are based on accident data that happened and caused injury as well as economic damage. Recently, conflict techniques provide general views and solutions to prevent early collisions. This paper proposes a method of conflict analysis using image processing technique and fuzzy comprehensive evaluation. Based on vehicles detection, the conflict parameters collected from two intersections in Hanoi, Vietnam were processed and evaluated by fuzzy comprehensive evaluation to give out the safety level of conflict points. The experimental results show that the proposed methods have successfully shown the distribution and location of dangerous conflict points according to the actual situation of the two intersections. Based on our results, authorities can consider reorganizing traffic light pattern at these intersections to reduce possible collisions.


IJIREEICE ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 319-324
Author(s):  
Mrs. Harshitha R ◽  
Chandan R ◽  
Poornima K ◽  
Navyashree U N ◽  
Sandesh Gowda P

Author(s):  
Yasushi Kokubo ◽  
Hirotami Koike ◽  
Teruo Someya

One of the advantages of scanning electron microscopy is the capability for processing the image contrast, i.e., the image processing technique. Crewe et al were the first to apply this technique to a field emission scanning microscope and show images of individual atoms. They obtained a contrast which depended exclusively on the atomic numbers of specimen elements (Zcontrast), by displaying the images treated with the intensity ratio of elastically scattered to inelastically scattered electrons. The elastic scattering electrons were extracted by a solid detector and inelastic scattering electrons by an energy analyzer. We noted, however, that there is a possibility of the same contrast being obtained only by using an annular-type solid detector consisting of multiple concentric detector elements.


Author(s):  
J. Magelin Mary ◽  
Chitra K. ◽  
Y. Arockia Suganthi

Image processing technique in general, involves the application of signal processing on the input image for isolating the individual color plane of an image. It plays an important role in the image analysis and computer version. This paper compares the efficiency of two approaches in the area of finding breast cancer in medical image processing. The fundamental target is to apply an image mining in the area of medical image handling utilizing grouping guideline created by genetic algorithm. The parameter using extracted border, the border pixels are considered as population strings to genetic algorithm and Ant Colony Optimization, to find out the optimum value from the border pixels. We likewise look at cost of ACO and GA also, endeavors to discover which one gives the better solution to identify an affected area in medical image based on computational time.


Author(s):  
Yashpal Jitarwal ◽  
Tabrej Ahamad Khan ◽  
Pawan Mangal

In earlier times fruits were sorted manually and it was very time consuming and laborious task. Human sorted the fruits of the basis of shape, size and color. Time taken by human to sort the fruits is very large therefore to reduce the time and to increase the accuracy, an automatic classification of fruits comes into existence.To improve this human inspection and reduce time required for fruit sorting an advance technique is developed that accepts information about fruits from their images, and is called as Image Processing Technique.


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