RT Journal Article
T1 Reducing Unnecessary Alerts in Pedestrian Protection Systems Based on P2V Communications
A1 Soto Campos, Ignacio
A1 Jiménez, Felipe
A1 Calderón Pastor, María Carmen
A1 Naranjo, Jose E.
A1 Anaya, Jose J.
AB There are different proposals in the literature on how to protect pedestrians using warning systems to alert drivers of their presence. They can be based on onboard perception systems or wireless communications. The evaluation of these systems has been focused on testing their ability to detect pedestrians. A problem that has received much less attention is the possibility of generating too many alerts in the warning systems. In this paper, we propose and analyze four different algorithms to take the decision on generating alerts in a warning system that is based on direct wireless communications between vehicles and pedestrians. With the algorithms, we explore different strategies to reduce unnecessary alerts. The feasibility of the implementation of the algorithms was evaluated with a deployment using real equipment, and tests were carried out to verify their behavior in real scenarios. The ability of each algorithm to reduce unnecessary alerts was evaluated with realistic simulations in an urban scenario, using a traffic simulator with vehicular and pedestrian flows. The results show the importance of tackling the problem of driver overload in warning systems, and that it is not straightforward to predict the load of alerts generated by an algorithm in a large-scale deployment, in which there are multiple interactions between vehicles and pedestrians.
PB MDPI
SN 2079-9292
YR 2019
FD 2019-03-25
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/31844
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/31844
LA eng
NO The work in this article was partially supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Economía yCompetitividad (Ignacio Soto y Maria Calderon through the Texeo project, TEC2016-80339-R; and Felipe Jimenez,Jose E. Naranjo, and Jose J. Anaya through the CAV project, TRA2016-78886-C3-3-R).
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