• 자동차안전학회지
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.7-13
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• 2017

As automotive industry develops, the demand for increasing traffic safety is growing. Lots of researches about vehicle convenience and safety technology have been implemented. Now, the autonomous driving test is being conducted all over the world, and the autonomous driving regulations are also being developed. Autonomous vehicles are being commercialized, but autonomous vehicle safety has not been guaranteed yet. This paper presents scenarios that assess the safety of autonomous vehicles by identifying the minimum requirements to ensure safety for a variety of situations on highway. In assessing driving safety, seven scenarios were totally selected. Seven scenarios were related to lane keeping and lane change performance in certain situations. These scenarios were verified by analyzing the driving data acquired through actual vehicle driving. Data analysis was implemented via computer simulation. These scenarios are developed based on existing ADAS evaluation and simulation of autonomous vehicle algorithm. Also Safety evaluation factors are developed based on ISO requirements, other papers and the current traffic regulations.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제8권9호
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• pp.285-292
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• 2017

본 논문은 자율주행 개인화를 위한 순환 최소자승 기반 융합형 종방향 주행특성 구분 알고리즘에 관한 연구이다. 최근 자율주행 기술은 Level 4 완전 자율주행 단계를 위해 다양한 연구가 수행되고 있다. 자율주행 자동차의 상용화를 위해서는 탑승자의 자율주행에 대한 이질감을 최소화할 수 있어야 하며 이를 위해 자율주행 개인화 기술이 필요하다. 이 문제를 해결하기 위해 본 연구에서는 운전자의 종방향 주행특성을 수학적으로 표현하고 순환 최소자승 기법 기반 실 주행 데이터를 이용하여 주행특성을 도출하는 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 두 명의 실제 운전자 데이터를 이용하여 종방향 주행특성을 도출하였으며 두 명의 운전자를 구분하기 위해 가설검정 기반 확률적 구분 알고리즘을 적용하였다. 제안된 종방향 주행특성 도출 및 구분 알고리즘은 개별 운전자의 주행특성을 합리적으로 나타낼 수 있었으며 가설검정 기반 확률적 구분기법에 의해 주행특성이 구분될 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• 자동차안전학회지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.45-54
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• 2023

In the commercialization stage of level 4 or higher autonomous driving, the need for new legal system related to drive safely has increased in order to meet the improved level of technological development. Especially human drivers should not be legally accountable for road safety in the era of autonomous vehicles and thus safety standards for operation of autonomous vehicles are significant. To address this issue, the German Road Traffic Act was revised in 2021, adding provisions corresponding to the commercialization of self-driving vehicle of level 4 and in the similar context the Japanese Road Traffic Ac was amended in 2022. This Article draws implications for legislative discussions on driving-related responsibilities of driverless autonomous vehicle to ensure driving safety in Korea through recent amendments in Germany and Japan.

• 전자통신동향분석
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• 제38권6호
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• pp.31-40
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• 2023

Given recent accidents involving autonomous vehicles, driver monitoring technology related to the transition of control in autonomous vehicles is gaining prominence. Driver status monitoring systems recognize the driver's level of alertness and identify possible impairments in the driving ability owing to conditions including drowsiness and distraction. In autonomous vehicles, predictive factors for the transition to manual driving should also be included. During traditional human driving, monitoring the driver's status is relatively straightforward owing to the consistency of crucial cues, such as the driver's location, head orientation, gaze direction, and hand placement. However, monitoring becomes more challenging during autonomous driving because of the absence of direct manual control and the driver's engagement in other activities, which may obscure the accurate assessment of the driver's readiness to intervene. Hence, safety-ensuring technology must be balanced with user experience in autonomous driving. We explore relevant global and domestic regulations, the new car assessment program, and related standards to extract requirements for driver status monitoring. This kind of monitoring can both enhance the autonomous driving performance and contribute to the overall safety of autonomous vehicles on the road.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.190-201
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• 2023

Securing transportation safety infrastructure technology for Lv.4 connected autonomous driving is very important for the spread of autonomous vehicles, and the safe operation of level 4 autonomous vehicles in adverse weather has limitations due to the development of vehicle-only technology. We developed the radar-enabled AI convergence transportation entities detection system. This system is mounted on fixed and mobile supports on the road, and provides excellent autonomous driving situation recognition/determination results by converging transportation entities information collected from various monitoring sensors such as 60GHz radar and EO/IR based on artificial intelligence. By installing such a radar-enabled AI convergence transportation entities detection system on an autonomous road, it is possible to increase driving efficiency and ensure safety in adverse weather. To secure competitive technologies in the global market, the development of four key technologies such as ① AI-enabled transportation situation recognition/determination algorithm, ② 60GHz radar development technology, ③ multi-sensor data convergence technology, and ④ AI data framework technology is required.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.172-185
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• 2021

자율주행시대가 우리 삶에 다가오면서 삶의 변화에 많은 영향을 미칠 것으로 예상된다. 자율주행자동차가 등장하면 운전자의 부담을 줄임으로 차내에서 생산적 가치가 확장되는 만큼 이를 평가할 수 있는 지표개발이 필요하다. 이번 연구는 경기도 직장인 중 승용차를 이용하는 통근자를 대상으로 자율주행 자동차가 통근시간 및 통근시간 만족도에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지 분석하였다. 통근시간 및 통근시간 만족도는 비선형 관계(V)가 도출되었다. 여기서, 자율주행시대에 영향받을 가능성이 높은 비선형 구간인 통근시간 70분 이상영역을 중심으로 이항로지스틱 모형을 통해 분석하였다. 분석결과 자율주행시대의 영향변수로는 건강도, 수면시간, 근무시간, 여가시간 등이 도출되었다. 자율주행자동차의 등장은 이러한 변수를 개선시킬 가능성이 높으므로 장거리 통근자의 통근시간 만족도는 개선될 가능성이 높다.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.258-272
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• 2022

안전한 자율주행을 위하여 차량 센서에만 의존하는 Stand-alone 방식의 한계를 극복하기 위한 방법으로, 노변의 인프라와 자율주행차간 정보를 교환하는 '자율협력주행' 방식의 기술 개발이 이루어지고 있다. 이 과정에서 협력의 대상이 되는 동적정보는 통신 데이터 손실 측면의 평가방법이 일반적이지만, 정보로서 역할 중심의 평가방법이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 자율협력주행에서 동적정보 서비스 역할의 적정성을 평가하기 위하여 역할 기반 평가방법을 제안하였다. 평가 척도로 검출률, 검출 소요시간, LDM 처리시간을 제안하였고, 평가방법론을 검증하기 위하여 실제 도로에서 보행자 정보를 대상으로 실증 실험을 시행하였다. 실험 결과로는 검출률 99%, 소요시간 200ms/건, 처리시간 19ms/건을 얻었다. 향후 제안된 동적정보 서비스 평가 방법이 관련 정보제공 서비스의 평가에 활용되기를 기대한다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제45권5호
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• pp.847-861
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• 2023

Dynamic object detection is essential for ensuring safe and reliable autonomous driving. Recently, light detection and ranging (LiDAR)-based object detection has been introduced and shown excellent performance on various benchmarks. Although LiDAR sensors have excellent accuracy in estimating distance, they lack texture or color information and have a lower resolution than conventional cameras. In addition, performance degradation occurs when a LiDAR-based object detection model is applied to different driving environments or when sensors from different LiDAR manufacturers are utilized owing to the domain gap phenomenon. To address these issues, a sensor-fusion-based object detection and classification method is proposed. The proposed method operates in real time, making it suitable for integration into autonomous vehicles. It performs well on our custom dataset and on publicly available datasets, demonstrating its effectiveness in real-world road environments. In addition, we will make available a novel three-dimensional moving object detection dataset called ETRI 3D MOD.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.49-58
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• 2022

최근 4차 산업혁명의 시작으로 인해 자율주행 관련 시장이 빠르게 발전하고 있다. 빠르게 발전하는 자율주행 기술의 기술 동향을 파악하기 위해서 자율주행의 Level 0부터 Level 5까지의 특징 및 차이점에 대해서 알아보고자 한다. 자율주행 차량의 전반적인 구성, 인식기술, 보조기술들을 분석하고, 이를 통해 자율주행 기술에 대한 구조 및 알고리즘을 파악하고자 한다. 또한 초음파 센서와 카메라를 이용한 모의 자율주행 RC카를 제작하여 인식기술과 보조기술의 필요성을 파악한다.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.39-47
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• 2023

The development of autonomous driving and Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) technology has grown rapidly in recent years. As most traffic accidents occur due to human error, self-driving vehicles can drastically reduce the number of accidents and crashes that occur on the roads today. Obviously, technical advancements in autonomous driving can lead to improved public driving safety. However, due to the current limitations in technology and lack of public trust in self-driving cars (and drones), the actual use of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) is still significantly low. According to prior studies, people's acceptance of an AV is mainly determined by trust. It is proven that people still feel much more comfortable in personalized ADAS, designed with the way people drive. Based on such needs, a new attempt for a customized ADAS considering each driver's driving style is proposed in this paper. Each driver's behavior is divided into two categories: assertive and defensive. In this paper, a novel customized ADAS algorithm with high classification accuracy is designed, which divides each driver based on their driving style. Each driver's driving data is collected and simulated using CARLA, which is an open-source autonomous driving simulator. In addition, Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) machine learning algorithms are used to optimize the ADAS parameters. The proposed scheme results in a high classification accuracy of time series driving data. Furthermore, among the vast amount of CARLA-based feature data extracted from the drivers, distinguishable driving features are collected selectively using Support Vector Machine (SVM) technology by comparing the amount of influence on the classification of the two categories. Therefore, by extracting distinguishable features and eliminating outliers using SVM, the classification accuracy is significantly improved. Based on this classification, the ADAS sensors can be made more sensitive for the case of assertive drivers, enabling more advanced driving safety support. The proposed technology of this paper is especially important because currently, the state-of-the-art level of autonomous driving is at level 3 (based on the SAE International driving automation standards), which requires advanced functions that can assist drivers using ADAS technology.