Abstract
“Barrier free car” is specifically aimed at helping people who have trouble driving a normal-sized car due to age or disability. We propose a concept of a driving support system which compensates human error for providing safety drive.
Following research themes are discussed to provide a vehicle with computer aided driving support system.
1) Information re-composition
Grasp surrounding information of the vehicle and observe driver's behavior. Especially detection of pedestrians and recognition of face direction are described.
2) Intention recognition and Decision Action
Confirm safety depending upon following two-layered support to reduce the control by the system to a minimum.
•Predictive compensation; let a driver realize danger based on intention reasoning when miss-recognition or miss-decision happened.
•Fail safe intervention; control by support system at a safety limit.
3) Information Output
Provide drivers with the important information in the most suitable style in order not to disturb their task. Special features of our information output unit are the following four points.
Experimental and Reflective Cognition
Background and Foreground Mode
Media Transformation and Modality Transformation
Adaptable System Architecture
