An Ultrasonic Sensor System Based on a Two-Dimensional State Method for Highway Vehicle Violation Detection Applications

Sensors

Jun Liu¹  Jiuqiang Han²  Hongqiang Lv²  Bing Li² 

[1] School of Electrical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China; E-Mail:;School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China; E-Mails:

关键词: highway vehicle traffic rule violation detection;    intelligent transportation systems;    two-dimensional state method;    ultrasonic sensor system;   

DOI  :  10.3390/s150409000

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

With the continuing growth of highway construction and vehicle use expansion all over the world, highway vehicle traffic rule violation (TRV) detection has become more and more important so as to avoid traffic accidents and injuries in intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). Since very few works have contributed to solve the TRV detection problem by moving vehicle measurements and surveillance devices, this paper develops a novel parallel ultrasonic sensor system that can be used to identify the TRV behavior of a host vehicle in real-time. Then a two-dimensional state method is proposed, utilizing the spacial state and time sequential states from the data of two parallel ultrasonic sensors to detect and count the highway vehicle violations. Finally, the theoretical TRV identification probability is analyzed, and actual experiments are conducted on different highway segments with various driving speeds, which indicates that the identification accuracy of the proposed method can reach about 90.97%.

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