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8. Intelligent Transport Systems

マシンビジョンによる自動運転

自動車交通流をＣＣＤカメラで計測

8. Intelligent Transport Systems
　　Research on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) has a long history in our laboratory beginning with an automated driving system in 1960's. Currently, research on Advanced Vehicle Control and Safety Systems (AVCSS) including automated driving systems, measurement and analysis of automobile traffic flow, and human factors on vehicle driving has been conducted.
　　The first vision-based vehicle in the world developed in our laboratory in 1970's has been followed by automated driving systems and intelligent vehicles. A present intelligent vehicle detects lanes and obstacles with CCD cameras to perform obstacle detection and avoidance, and lane changing and lane following. The figure (top) shows the vehicle.
　　The research of the measurement of automobile traffic flow with a CCD camera is aiming to analyze driver behavior to quantify the disparity of the driver behavior from the viewpoint that such disparity may be a hazard to the safety and efficiency of traffic. Automobiles detected with a CCD camera are shown in the figure (bottom).

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