Advanced driver assistance systems: Objective and subjective performance evaluation

Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) have emerged as a critical technology in enhancing vehicle safety, providing convenience to drivers, and facilitating the transition toward fully autonomous vehicles. The core of these systems relies heavily on computer vision (CV) technologies, which enable vehicles to interpret and understand their surrounding environment in real time. The integration of computer vision in ADAS allows vehicles to recognize and process various objects such as pedestrians, vehicles, traffic signs, and lane markings, significantly improving both safety and the driving experience. In this paper, we explore the pivotal role of computer vision in the development and implementation of ADAS in autonomous vehicles. We begin by reviewing the evolution of ADAS, detailing the different sub-systems such as lane departure warning, automatic emergency braking, adaptive cruise control, and parking assistance, all of which depend on sophisticated image processing techniques. Furthermore, the paper examines the intersection of computer vision with other emerging technologies such as machine learning, deep learning, and sensor fusion. We discuss how these innovations enable ADAS to function more effectively in complex, dynamic environments. The methodology section focuses on cutting-edge algorithms used for object detection, semantic segmentation, and real-time image processing, which are integral to the functionality of modern ADAS. Additionally, we evaluate the challenges that computer vision systems face in real-world applications, including issues with sensor calibration, environmental conditions, computational limitations, and the integration of data from multiple sensors (e.g., cameras, LiDAR, radar). The paper also presents an analysis of the results obtained from various real-world implementations of ADAS technologies, highlighting improvements in driver safety and the reduction of traffic-related accidents. We explore the potential of computer vision in enabling fully autonomous driving by addressing the current gaps in technology and the advancements needed to close these gaps. Finally, the paper concludes with a discussion on the future of ADAS and the role of computer vision in realizing fully autonomous, reliable, and efficient transportation systems. We argue that continued research and development in computer vision, combined with innovations in deep learning and sensor technologies, are critical to advancing the capabilities and reliability of autonomous vehicles in the near future.

EPS systems integrate Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) while the driver controls the steering wheel. Touch sensors, torque, and position sensors improve driver involvement, safety, and control in EPS. ADAS features like lane-keeping assistance and adaptive cruise control are activated by the driver’s steering wheel touch. EPS with driver-enabled ADAS integration, using touch sensors, empowers drivers while leveraging enhanced automation. The vehicle model design incorporates touch sensors, Arduino, and motor drivers to enable Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) exclusively when the driver holds the steering wheel. The touch sensors detect the driver’s touch on the steering wheel, triggering the ADAS functionalities and allowing the vehicle to move. The Arduino microcontroller, equipped with embedded C code, processes the touch sensor inputs and communicates with the motor drivers to initiate vehicle propulsion. The embedded C code facilitates real-time monitoring and control of the touch sensor inputs, enabling a seamless integration between driver interaction and vehicle movement, thereby enhancing both safety and user experience

• The performance of Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) is limited on road curves. • The Intelligent Speed Adaptation for Visibility (V-ISA) adjusts speed based on road conditions. • A driving simulation study assessed the influence of ACC and V-ISA on driver behaviour. • Integrating ACC and V-ISA significantly improved longitudinal driving performance. • The system achieved high system acceptance with no added mental workload. Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) have become an integral part of modern vehicles, significantly changing the driving experience. Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) assists drivers in maintaining a constant speed and a safe following distance; however, it does not moderate the speed along curves when sight limitations occur, thus compromising safety. To address these challenges, this study integrates the Intelligent Speed Adaptation for Visibility (V-ISA) system with ACC. The V-ISA system dynamically adjusts the vehicle speed based on real-time visibility conditions, thereby enhancing safety on road curves where sight distance is restricted. Additionally, this study evaluates the impact of the ACC + V-ISA system on driver performance, specifically focusing on speed management, lateral vehicle control, and driver experience with assistance systems. The study was conducted in a simulated environment with forty-five participants. The results revealed that the ACC + V-ISA system effectively reduced vehicle speed on curves with limited visibility. The ability of the system to regulate speed according to prevailing road conditions highlights its potential to improve road safety. Moreover, the findings suggest that using the V-ISA system integrated with ACC maintains user acceptance and satisfaction while imposing no additional mental workload compared to using ACC alone. These insights are crucial for the future design of ADAS and autonomous vehicles and emphasize the importance of introducing this system into vehicles. LED bar colour

Much of the existing research on drivers’ understanding of adaptive cruise control (ACC), a type of advanced driver assistance system, was conducted several years ago. Through an online survey, this study aimed to assess ACC knowledge among ACC owners and non-owners now that this system is more widely available. Along with knowledge of ACC features and limitations, demographic information, experience with technology, and experience with ACC (for owners) were also collected to investigate which factors predicted knowledge of ACC features and limitations. Results showed that owners today may have a better understanding of some of the main limitations of ACC compared with research conducted over 10 years ago. However, a large percentage of owners still had misperceptions about their ACC system. While owners had a slightly higher percentage of correct answers overall, they did not differ from non-owners in their knowledge of limitations. As this technology is becoming more common, even non-owners may be becoming aware of common limitations; owning and using ACC does not seem to result in a better system understanding. Higher income was associated with a higher percentage of correct responses on the ACC knowledge questionnaire for both owners and non-owners, and for non-owners, higher education level was also significantly associated with a higher percentage of correct responses. Future research should focus on developing training materials that are accessible to all drivers, so that drivers in lower education and income groups are also supported to understand how advanced driver assistance systems work and benefit from these technologies.

Advanced rider assistance systems (ARAS) play a crucial role in enhancing motorcycle safety through features such as collision avoidance, blind-spot detection, and adaptive cruise control, which rely heavily on sensors like radar, cameras, and LiDAR. However, their performance is often compromised under adverse weather conditions, leading to sensor interference, reduced visibility, and inconsistent reliability. This study evaluates the effectiveness and limitations of ARAS technologies in rain, fog, and snow, focusing on how sensor performance, algorithms, techniques, and dataset suitability influence system reliability. A thematic analysis was conducted, selecting studies focused on ARAS in adverse weather conditions based on specific selection criteria. The analysis shows that while ARAS offers substantial safety benefits, its accuracy declines in challenging environments. Existing datasets, algorithms, and techniques were reviewed to identify the most effective options for ARAS applications. However, more comprehensive weather-resilient datasets and adaptive multi-sensor fusion approaches are still needed. Advancing in these areas will be critical to improving the robustness of ARAS and ensuring safer riding experiences across diverse environmental conditions.

Suggestions for improving the drivers’ understanding and trust in the advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) are proposed. A user survey and an in-depth interview were conducted to investigate what information the drivers should receive from the system to gain trust in ADAS. Results obtained from the user survey indicate that not only the general public but also experts lacked understanding of the system behaviour under automatic operation. In particular, drivers lacked understanding of the ‘temporary mode disengagement’ and ‘restricted range of operation’. Results obtained from the in-depth interview indicate that drivers require information on the system operation if it acts differently from the user’s expectation. The suggestions in this study were refined based on insights from the qualitative analysis. The key result was interpreted by the theoretical study of Donald Norman’s ‘seven stages action model’ and ‘mental model’. Moreover, we determined the drivers’ need for information on the status of the system and the reasons behind its automatic operations. We sorted the system’s automatic operations into ‘temporary mode disengagement’, ‘restricted range of operation’, ‘detection of the front car of adaptive cruise control (ACC)’, and ‘failure of lane detection of lane-keeping assist (LKA)’. Providing information enables drivers to understand the system’s automatic operation and general purpose. The findings in this study provide an approach to form the right mental model for drivers when employing ADAS. We expect that our findings will be of help to design ADAS user interface increasing trust and safety.

Abstract: The development of modern driver assistance systems, such as Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) and its enhanced version ACC+, represents a significant step towards improving road safety. This article analyzes the operation of these systems in the context of the causes and effects of traffic accidents. Based on the reconstruction of a specific traffic incident, a detailed assessment of the impact of ACC and ACC+ on traffic safety was conducted. The study is based on the analysis of measurable technical parameters that change under varying road conditions, both with the systems activated and deactivated. The paper also discusses examples of preventive strategies for similar incidents, utilizing new technologies applied in modern vehicles. Particular attention is given to differences in vehicle behavior under various operational scenarios of ACC and ACC+ systems, with a focus on their impact on the safety of road users. This article contributes to the development of knowledge on minimizing accident risks through advanced driver assistance systems. Keywords: ACC; ACC+; Safety; Traffic

<div class="section abstract"><div class="htmlview paragraph">Adaptive cruise control is one of the key technologies in advanced driver assistance systems. However, improving the performance of autonomous driving systems requires addressing various challenges, such as maintaining the dynamic stability of the vehicle during the cruise process, accurately controlling the distance between the ego vehicle and the preceding vehicle, resisting the effects of nonlinear changes in longitudinal speed on system performance. To overcome these challenges, an adaptive cruise control strategy based on the Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy model with a focus on ensuring vehicle lateral stability is proposed. Firstly, a collaborative control model of adaptive cruise and lateral stability is established with desired acceleration and additional yaw moment as control inputs. Then, considering the effect of the nonlinear change of the longitudinal speed on the performance of the vehicle system. And the input penalty factor of the adaptive cruise control system is designed as a variable parameter for the collaborative control model. On this basis, the longitudinal speed, reciprocal of speed and penalty factor are used as advance variables to design fuzzy rules of the system. And the nonlinear Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy model is established by fuzzifying the local linear model. Then, the vehicle following cruise controller considering the lateral stability is designed by parallel distribution compensation method. Finally, the TruckSim/Simulink co-simulation model was built for testing. The test results show that the proposed controller can improve the lateral stability of the vehicle during the following process, reduce the risk of instability of the vehicle, and improve the overall safety of the automatic driving system.</div></div>

Model predictive control policy design, solutions, and stability analysis for longitudinal vehicle control considering shockwave damping

This thesis deals with the analysis and understanding of drivers’ behaviours under car-following. The aim is to enhance the modelling tools toward the development of new ADAS (Advanced Driving Assistance System) logics, characterized by a more human-like behaviour. After having introduced the argument of the thesis (and motivated the work) and having recalled the state of the art most relevant in the field of car-following (as well as in the instruments for observing car-following in the real world), the thesis evolves toward three main sections: actual observation of real-world data and collection of the datasets to be employed for theoretical analysis; theoretical enhancements and propositions; applications to ACC (Adaptive Cruise Control), as a relevant field for ADAS. The data employed in this work have been collected in three different field surveys, two of them carried out in Italy and the other in the United Kingdom. In all cases data have been collected by instrumented vehicles, equipped in such a way to observe and record car-following trajectories. Data have been framed into different theoretical paradigms in order to both validate each theory and to establish the links between these theories. Links have been established both in a formal way (through theoretical investigation) and in a data-driven way. The considered theoretical paradigm for modelling car-following follows different approaches: one is based on the psycho-physical approach and two others are based on an engineering-inspired approach. In particular, the considered psycho-physical approach has been the Action Point theory (Wiedemann, 1974); a revised version of the paradigm, more compliant with the original version of Barbosa (1961) and Todosoiev (1963) has been proposed and justified with reference to the collected data. The first engineering paradigm has been based on a state-space approach. The proposed approach has been shown to be consistent with the Action Point theory. The parameters of the model have been estimated by means of the collected data and the obtained results have been discussed; they are consistent with observations and justify the adopted model. The other engineering model is based on a linear approximation (at any time t, in a discrete-time approach) of the response of the follower to the leader’s stimuli. Also the linear model is shown to be a very good approximation of the observed data; moreover, it has been shown to lead to an harmonic oscillation around the desired spacing at steady-state. This oscillation is consistent with both the Action Point theory and (partially) with the proposed state-space approach. The linear model is particularly suitable for real-time ACC-oriented application; thus it is the model employed in section 4 of this work, where a fully-adaptive ACC system is developed, able to actuate a driving-style actually consistent with driver’s expectations and preferences.

Nonlinear MPC for Emission Efficient Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control

In the Netherlands, a field operational test was conducted in 2006 to assess the impact of two advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), namely adaptive cruise control (ACC) and lane departure warning (LDW) systems. The research goal was to estimate the effects of these systems on road capacity, safety and emissions. In this paper we focus on the interaction between driver and ACC system using the data from this FOT. It is found that drivers choose headway settings according to their manual driving behavior. Moreover, they often keep the system deactivated under dense traffic conditions. It is also observed from the data that the system, once de-activated, either automatically or manually, needs some time to become again active. These findings imply that, even with 100% cars on the road equipped with ACC, manual driving behavior will still be a determinant factor.

Various advanced driver assistance systems (ADASs) have recently been developed, such as Adaptive Cruise Control and Precrash Safety System. However, most ADASs can operate in only some driving situations because of the difficulty of recognizing contextual information. For closer cooperation between a driver and vehicle, the vehicle should recognize a wider range of situations, similar to that recognized by the driver, and assist the driver with appropriate timing. In this paper, we assumed a double articulation structure in driving behavior data and segmented driving behavior into meaningful chunks for driving scene recognition in a similar manner to natural language processing (NLP). A double articulation analyzer translated the driving behavior into meaningless manemes, which are the smallest units of the driving behavior just like phonemes in NLP, and from them it constructed navemes, which are meaningful chunks of driving behavior just like morphemes. As a result of this two-phase analysis, we found that driving chunks equivalent to language words were closer to the complicated or contextual driving scene segmentation produced by human recognition.

Comprehensive situational awareness is paramount to the effectiveness of advanced driver assistance systems (ADASs) used in daily urban traffic, particularly for the unmarked roads, which cannot fulfill the requirements of conventional ADAS systems. This paper proposed a stereovision-based multimodal ADAS system designed for expanding the usability of ADAS functions, including lane-keeping assist, adaptive cruise control, and precrash system, to normal urban scenarios with unmarked roads. At first, the physical road boundary and vehicle candidates are detected. Subsequently, the contextual information between the host vehicle, the road, and the other vehicles are correlated for both low-level object detection improvement and high-level road structure estimation. Finally, the required ADAS elements are generated based on the correlation results with respect to the system functionalities. Experimental results in various typical but challenging scenarios have substantiated the effectiveness of the proposed system, which could help increase the value of the existing ADAS system without major modifications or expense.

This study demonstrates the need for a holistic safety‐impact assessment of an advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) and its effect on eye‐glance behaviour. It implements a substantial incremental development of the what‐if (counterfactual) simulation methodology, applied to rear‐end crashes from the SHRP2 naturalistic driving data. This assessment combines (i) the impact of the change in drivers’ off‐road glance behaviour due to the presence of the ADAS, and (ii) the safety impact of the ADAS alone. The results illustrate how the safety benefit of forward collision warning and autonomous emergency braking, in combination with adaptive cruise control (ACC) and driver assist (DA) systems, may almost completely dominate the safety impact of the longer off‐road glances that activated ACC and DA systems may induce. Further, this effect is shown to be robust to induced system failures. The accuracy of these results is tempered by outlined limitations, which future estimations will benefit from addressing. On the whole, this study is a further step towards a successively more accurate holistic risk assessment which includes driver behavioural responses such as off‐road glances together with the safety effects provided by the ADAS.