Observations of Drivers’ Behavior When Opening Car Door with Two Stages

Huang, Cheng-Yong

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-41682-3_28

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“…Stopped vehicles and opening car doors are a major source of car accidents, especially in construction zones [1–3 ], when there is the potential for a vehicle to unexpectedly begin moving or for a car door to unexpectedly open. Although current‐generation millimetre wave (MMW) automotive radar has significant capabilities for range‐Doppler processing [4 ], Doppler phenomenology related to safety‐critical feature identification has not yet been significantly exploited for automotive applications, and parked cars in particular.…”

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Identifying the operation of a parked car's engine, transmission, and door using millimetre wave pulse Doppler radar

Rodenbeck

Beun

2020

Electronics Letters

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This Letter demonstrates the technical capability of millimetre wave pulse‐Doppler radar to identify safety‐critical operating status information for parked cars. A simple 94‐GHz pulsed linear frequency modulated radar with stretch processing on receive provides range‐selective detection of small‐scale vibration along the length of a parked car. The resulting range‐Doppler signature clearly differentiates whether the car's engine is running or not as well as whether the car's transmission is shifting between ‘park’ and ‘drive’. The rotational motion of an opening car door also produces a distinct signature in range‐Doppler space. Incorporating this knowledge into future automotive sensors can alert oncoming vehicles to unanticipated actions of parked cars to avert potential damage or injury.

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