Eigo SEGAWA †, M or it o SHI OHARA †, Shige r u SASAKI †, Nor io HASHI GUCHI ‡, Tomonobu TAKASHI M A ‡, a nd M a s a t os hi TOHNO ‡ †Fuj it s u La bor a t or ie s Lt d., ‡Fuj it s u Limit e d, 4-1-1 Ka mikoda na ka , Na ka ha r a -ku, Ka wa s a ki, Ka na ga wa 211-8588, J a pa n. s e ga wa .e igo@ j p.f uj it s u.c om
Abs t ractWe developed a system that detects the vehicle driving immediately ahead of one's own car in the same lane and measures the distance to and relativ e speed of that v ehicle to prev ent accidents such as rear-end collisions. The system is the first in the industry to use non-scanning millimeter-wav e radar combined with a sturdy stereo image sensor, which k eeps cost low. I t can operate stably in adv erse weather conditions such as rain and snow, which could not easily be done with prev ious sensors. The system' s v ehicle detection performance was tested, and the system can correctly detect v ehicles driv ing 3 to 50 m ahead in the same lane with higher than 9 9% accuracy in clear weather. Detection performance in rainy weather, where water drops and splashes notably degraded v isibility, was higher than 90%.