New estimation of Pedestrian's rushing out in front of cars by pressure and direction sensors in ITS

摘要

We have proposed a Pedestrian-Vehicular Collision Avoidance Support System (P-VCASS) in order to protect pedestrians from traffic accidents. P-VCASS takes into account pedestrian's moving situations. It gives warning to drivers of neighboring vehicles in advance if there is a possibility of collision between vehicles and pedestrians. From several experiments, we confirmed the effectiveness. Pedestrians are dangerous for vehicle drivers because they have high probability of rushing out in front of cars suddenly. Hence, we need to take into account the presence of them. In this paper, we propose a new estimation method of pedestrian's rushing out in front of cars by using pressure and direction sensors. We show the effectiveness of the proposed system by experiments using a vehicle and a pedestrian terminal in an intersection. As a result, we show that a driver of vehicle is able to detect pedestrians who rushing out quickly and accurately.