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Application of Ultrasonic Sensors in Road Surface Condition Distinction Methods
The number of accidents involving elderly individuals has been increasing with the increase of the aging population, posing increasingly serious challenges. Most accidents are caused by reduced judgment and physical abilities, which lead to severe consequences. Therefore, studies on support systems...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5087466/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27754326 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s16101678 |
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author | Nakashima, Shota Aramaki, Shingo Kitazono, Yuhki Mu, Shenglin Tanaka, Kanya Serikawa, Seiichi |
author_facet | Nakashima, Shota Aramaki, Shingo Kitazono, Yuhki Mu, Shenglin Tanaka, Kanya Serikawa, Seiichi |
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description | The number of accidents involving elderly individuals has been increasing with the increase of the aging population, posing increasingly serious challenges. Most accidents are caused by reduced judgment and physical abilities, which lead to severe consequences. Therefore, studies on support systems for elderly and visually impaired people to improve the safety and quality of daily life are attracting considerable attention. In this study, a road surface condition distinction method using reflection intensities obtained by an ultrasonic sensor was proposed. The proposed method was applied to movement support systems for elderly and visually impaired individuals to detect dangerous road surfaces and give an alarm. The method did not perform well in previous studies of puddle detection, because the alert provided by the method did not enable users to avoid puddles. This study extended the method proposed by previous studies with respect to puddle detection ability. The findings indicate the effectiveness of the proposed method by considering four road surface conditions. The proposed method could detect puddle conditions. The effectiveness of the proposed method was verified in all four conditions, since users could differentiate between road surface conditions and classify the conditions as either safe or dangerous. |
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spelling | pubmed-50874662016-11-07 Application of Ultrasonic Sensors in Road Surface Condition Distinction Methods Nakashima, Shota Aramaki, Shingo Kitazono, Yuhki Mu, Shenglin Tanaka, Kanya Serikawa, Seiichi Sensors (Basel) Article The number of accidents involving elderly individuals has been increasing with the increase of the aging population, posing increasingly serious challenges. Most accidents are caused by reduced judgment and physical abilities, which lead to severe consequences. Therefore, studies on support systems for elderly and visually impaired people to improve the safety and quality of daily life are attracting considerable attention. In this study, a road surface condition distinction method using reflection intensities obtained by an ultrasonic sensor was proposed. The proposed method was applied to movement support systems for elderly and visually impaired individuals to detect dangerous road surfaces and give an alarm. The method did not perform well in previous studies of puddle detection, because the alert provided by the method did not enable users to avoid puddles. This study extended the method proposed by previous studies with respect to puddle detection ability. The findings indicate the effectiveness of the proposed method by considering four road surface conditions. The proposed method could detect puddle conditions. The effectiveness of the proposed method was verified in all four conditions, since users could differentiate between road surface conditions and classify the conditions as either safe or dangerous. MDPI 2016-10-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5087466/ /pubmed/27754326 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s16101678 Text en © 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Nakashima, Shota Aramaki, Shingo Kitazono, Yuhki Mu, Shenglin Tanaka, Kanya Serikawa, Seiichi Application of Ultrasonic Sensors in Road Surface Condition Distinction Methods |
title | Application of Ultrasonic Sensors in Road Surface Condition Distinction Methods |
title_full | Application of Ultrasonic Sensors in Road Surface Condition Distinction Methods |
title_fullStr | Application of Ultrasonic Sensors in Road Surface Condition Distinction Methods |
title_full_unstemmed | Application of Ultrasonic Sensors in Road Surface Condition Distinction Methods |
title_short | Application of Ultrasonic Sensors in Road Surface Condition Distinction Methods |
title_sort | application of ultrasonic sensors in road surface condition distinction methods |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5087466/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27754326 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s16101678 |
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