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ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION:
Collision warning system with automatic braking is a combination of several
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technologies. Over the years, automotive safety has gained an increasing amount of
interest from the general public, governments, and the car industry. A successful way
to attain continuous improvements in safety development is a working process based
on real world situations and the feed-back of this information into the product
development. This working method has been found very effective in passive safety
development. The present study applies this working process into development of new
active safety systems. Active safety systems require a wider scope of the study and
performance goals, thereby expanding to accident occurrence beside injury protection
and opponent vehicle beside host vehicle. The aim of this paper is to present some of
the latest active safety development and to put them into context of the working
process. Collision detection is done by using Ultrasonic sensor and Stop indication
using flashing LED and LCD display. Braking is done using a servo motor
connected to parking brake lever to ensure optimal braking force and minimum
braking distance. Electro mechanical actuation using mechanical actuator making the
operation extremely fast thereby safety ensured braking. Power of the prime mover
is cutoff using a relay switch to reduce power wastage and break wear. All these
devices are controlled using Arduino Mega 2560 which is a microcontroller
programmed to do the specified task.
LITERATURE SURVEY:
Integrated safety systems can be broadly divided into two categories:
Collision avoidance: In this system the collision is avoided by the automatic
braking, but the driver will not be warned in this type of system. There is a
very good chance of wrongly interpreting the signals, especially in the case of
radars or lasers. So this is not so effective method of automatic braking.
Collision mitigation system: In this system the sensors detect the possibility
of collision but will not take immediate action. A warning will be sent to the
driver in the form of a signal or a voice message. There is a threshold safe
distance calculated by the system and if the driver fails to respond even when
the vehicle crosses that region, then only brakes will be applied automatically.
Even if there is a misinterpretation of signals, there is no problem because, the
decision to apply brakes is left with the driver and the brakes are applied
automatically only in the most emergency situations.
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collision or at least to mitigate its effects. A recent study suggests that if all
cars feature the system, it will reduce accidents by up to 27 percent and save
up to 8000 lives per year.
Anti-lock braking system (ABS): It is an automobile safety system that
allows the wheels on a motor vehicle to maintain tractive contact with the road
surface according to driver inputs while braking, preventing the wheels from
locking up (ceasing rotation) and avoiding uncontrolled skidding. It is an
automated system that uses the principles of threshold braking and cadence
braking which were practised by skillful drivers with previous generation
braking systems. It does this at a much faster rate and with better control than
a driver could manage. ABS generally offers improved vehicle control and
decreases stopping distances on dry and slippery surfaces; however, on loose
gravel or snow-covered surfaces, ABS can significantly increase braking
distance, although still improving vehicle control.
Requirement:
According to the road accident statics nearly 1. 3 million people die in road crashes
globally. There is a need for more advanced safety technologies in automobiles.
One among them is collision warning along with automatic braking in which the
driver is warned in case of collision and brakes are applied by which there is a
chance of reducing the number of accidents. The major causes of fatal accidents are
the psychological factor such as sleep, inattention and medical disorders of the
driver. So by this system the driver can be warned in case of any collision and
necessary action can be taken by him in order to avoid accidents.
Each year nearly 400, 000 people under 25 die on the world's roads, on
average over 1, 000 a day.
Over 90% of all road fatalities occur in low and middle-income countries,
which have less than half of the world's vehicles.
Road crashes cost USD $518 billion globally, costing individual countries
from 1-2% of their annual GDP.
Road crashes cost low and middle-income countries USD $65 billion
annually, exceeding the total amount received in developmental assistance.
Unless action is taken, road traffic injuries are predicted to become the fifth
leading cause of death by 2030.
PROBLEM DEFINITION:
The above mentioned brake assist safety systems as applied to automobiles are
extremely costly as they compulsorily need a computer for their implementation.
More over all these systems are singular problem oriented, hence there is a need of a
cost effective low end technology or device that can perform the function of alarm
and brake control with minimal use of high end technology, suitable for low budget
commercial vehicles. Collision warning with automatic braking system for electric
cars is a technology which is cost effective and also being accurate enough to prevent
collisions.
Solution:
The Collision warning with automatic braking system for electric cars is a answer to
the above problems where in the following features have been incorporated;
Collision detection by using Ultrasonic sensor.
Collision indication using flashing LED and LCD display.
Braking using servomotor connected to rear drum brake parking cable to
ensure optimal braking force and minimum braking distance.
Power cut off of the prime mover i. e. motor to avoid power loss and
excessive brake wear.
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CONSTRUCTION:
The Collision warning with automatic braking system for electric cars comprises of
the following:
Electronic Relay:
Relay acts as a switch which is turned on and off using a signal. The Relay output
state by a light-emitting diode. It can be controlled through the digital IO port, such as
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solenoid valves, lamps, motors and other high current or high voltage devices.
Type: Digital
Single relay board
Rated through-current: 10A (NO) 5A (NC)
Maximum switching voltage: 150VAC 24VDC
Digital interface
Control signal: TTL level
Rated load: 8A 150VAC (NO) 10A 24VDC (NO), 5A 250VAC (NO/NC) 5A
24VDC (NO/NC)
Maximum switching power: AC1200VA DC240W (NO) AC625VA DC120W
(NC)
Contact action time: 10ms following
Module pin definitions: Pin1 - control side, Pin2 - Power supply (VCC), Pin3
– ground
Braking Mechanism:
The brake is activated using a servo motor. An arm from the servo motor is connected
to the brake pedal. When the arm of the servo motor rotates the brake pedal is
actuated and the brake is applied.
WORKING MECHANISM:
When the distance between the vehicle and obstacle falls below the permissible limits
which is sensed by the ultrasonic sensors, the Arduino send output signal to the servo
motor and the relay switch and also to the LCD display and LED flashers. The output
to the servo motor is the angle through which it has to rotate and to the relay switch is
to turn off the signal to it by which the device i. e. prime mover connected to it is
turned off. In the LCD display the distance between the vehicles and obstacle is
shown along with Red color LED flashers turned on warning the driver about the
collision.
SENSOR POSITIONING
The position of the sensor varies according to the dimension of the vehicle. Generally
for a passenger vehicle we need to use one ultrasonic sensor in the front attached to
the bumper at the middle.
BRAKING:
Braking of a vehicle depends upon the static friction that acts between tyres and road
surface. Brakes work on the following principle to stop the vehicle: “The kinetic
energy due to motion of the vehicle is dissipated in the form of heat energy due to
friction between moving parts (wheel or wheel drum) and stationary parts of vehicle
(brake shoes)”. The heat energy so generated due to application of brakes is dissipated
into air. Brakes operate most effectively when they are applied in a manner so that
wheels do not lock completely but continue to roll without slipping on the surface of
road.
Hydraulic brakes are commonly used in the automobiles. Principle Hydraulic brakes
work on the principle of Pascal’s law which states that “pressure at a point in a fluid is
equal in all directions in space”. According to this law when pressure is applied on a
fluid it travels equally in all directions so that uniform braking action is applied on all
four wheels.
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Application of Brakes:
When brake pedal is pressed to apply the brakes, the piston in the master cylinder
forces the brake fluid. This increases the pressure of fluid. This pressure is transmitted
in all the pipes and up to all wheel cylinders according to Pascal’s law. This increased
pressure forces out the two pistons in the wheel cylinders. These pistons are
connected to brake shoes. So, the brake shoes expand out against brake drums. Due to
friction between brake linings and drum, wheels slow down and brakes are applied. In
modern cars, there are disc brakes in the front wheels and drum brakes in the rear
wheels.
Release of Brakes:
When pedal is released, the piston of master cylinder returns to its original position
due to retractor spring provided in master cylinder. Thus, fluid pressure drops to
original value. The retractor spring provided in the wheel cylinders pulls the brake
shoes and contact between drum and brake linings is broken. Therefore, brakes are
released.
Calculations:
When the distance between the servo motor and obstacles is very less brakes are
applied automatically. The amount of brake force generated and deceleration,
stopping distance and stopping time are as follows:
Assuming the following parameters for Disc Brakes:
Parameter Specifications
Weight of the vehicle 350 kgs
Brake Types Hydraulic disc brake on all four wheels
Master cylinder bore x Stroke 1”x 1. 5”
Brake caliper bore x no’s 35”x 1
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The Brake force generated and the stopping distance due to the force applied on the
servo motor are as follows:
Parameter Value
Force Applied on the brake pedal 100N
Braking Force 1678. 34 N
Braking torque 98. 61 N-m
Deceleration 0. 4 g
Stopping distance 14. 33m
Stopping time 1. 81 s
PROTOTYPE:
We have made a prototype of the above system. In this we have used a dc motor
instead of an electric car and a mini servo motor. The results are as follows:
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CONCLUSION
Automatic collision warning with braking system brings major transportation benefits
in terms of safety, efficiency, affordability and usability, and environment in order to
achieve its development goals. It helps in decreasing the number of deaths that
are occurring due to fatal accidents. Automatic collision warning with braking
system is a complex large-scale control system, whose design required advances in
sensor, actuator, and communication technologies and in techniques of control
system synthesis and analysis. It is a measure of the advanced state of the art that
these techniques have reached a stage that they could be successfully used in this
project. This system is very economical when compared to the technologies being
used in luxury cars. This cost effective method of collision warning along with
automatic braking can be made available also to low budget cars by which there
can be a tremendous decrease in the death rate due to accidents.
REFERENCES:
[1]. Peden M, Scurfield R, Sleet D, (2004). "World report on road traffic injury
prevention", Geneva: World Health Organization, 2004.
[2]. NASS Crashworthiness Data System (2004). National Center for Statistics
and Analysis of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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