Browsing by Subject "Transportation Active Safety Institute (TASI)"

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    Study and Analysis 100-car Naturalistic Driving Data
    (Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2013-04-05) Justiniano, Amanda
    Every year, there are a large number of injuries and fatalities caused by vehicles crashes. In particular, pedestrian accidents are often fatal and have greatly impacted people’s lives. Vehicle active safety system can sense and identify potential crash events and prevent or mitigate the collision either by warming the driver or by taking appropriate control actions such as autonomous braking. To design such these kinds of systems, we need to study how accidents happen and to avoid the accident in real-life scenarios. In this research, the Transportation Active Safety Institute (TASI) has recruited 110 drivers to collect naturalist driving data for pedestrian behavior analysis. In this project, my work is first to study how automatic pedestrian detection system works and verifies the detection results. I have worked analyzing picture frames from videos and by identifying pedestrians in these picture frames. Other components that are taken into consideration are the human factors, biomechanics, data acquisition and analysis, and consumer awareness. TASI uses facilities such as car simulators, Drive Safety DS-600c, directed towards the research of the driver’s behaviors and for testing the active safety system. It is the main source for testing the system since it projects a scenario of road images that interacts with a cab of a car to provide an immersive driving experience. Upon completion of the research, there should be a successful safety system for implementing in cars that can effectively reduce vehicle crashes by alarming drivers of different dangers that might appear while driving.
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    Transportation Active Safety Institute
    (Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2010-04-09) Ainslie, Paul; Chen, Yaobin; Justiss, Michael; Koskie, Sarah; O’Connor, Sean
    Since its founding in February 2006, the mission of the Transportation Active Safety Institute (TASI) has been to advance the use of active safety systems to reduce vehicle crashes and save lives. TASI was one of 10 centers awarded IUPUI Signature Center funding in January, 2008. With core faculty drawn from ten departments representing eight schools, the Transportation Active Safety Institute (TASI) is a university-wide interdisciplinary center for advanced automotive-safety research and development on the IUPUI campus. Partnership with industry, government, and non-profit agencies ensures that university research activities complement existing technologies and address existing and future needs. TASI aims to provide a neutral forum for pre-competitive discussion and development of standards and test methodologies for establishing objective benefits of active-safety systems. TASI has established a driving simulator laboratory for research into driver behavior and for testing active-safety system performance. The state-of-the-art DriveSafety DS-600c Driving Simulator is providing a flexible and realistic driving environment for industry, government, and internally sponsored research. This reconfigurable platform allows TASI to test various sensors and driver interfaces, in order to determine effective and convenient solutions to challenges in enhancing safety. TASI held its third workshop, the International Workshop on Research in Active Safety Technology, August 10-11, 2009, in Indianapolis and is currently planning an international workshop on human factors for August 2010. TASI has established an active dialog with other vehicle safety centers around the world through our Global Academic Network for Active Safety.
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    Transportation Active Safety Institute
    (Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2011-04-08) Chen, Yaobin; Justiss, Michael; Koskie, Sarah; O’Connor, Sean
    Since its founding in February 2006, the mission of the Transportation Active Safety Institute (TASI) has been to advance the use of active safety systems to reduce vehicle crashes and save lives. TASI was one of 10 centers awarded IUPUI Signature Center funding (second round) in January, 2008. With core faculty drawn from ten departments representing eight schools at IUPUI, IUB and PUWL, the Transportation Active Safety Institute (TASI) is an interdisciplinary center for advanced transportation safety research and development on the IUPUI campus. Partnership with industry, government, and non-profit agencies ensures that university research activities complement existing technologies and address existing and future needs. TASI aims to provide a neutral forum for pre-competitive discussion and development of standards and test methodologies for establishing objective benefits of active-safety systems. TASI has established a driving simulator laboratory for research into driver behavior and for testing active safety system performance. The state-of-the-art DriveSafety DS-600c Driving Simulator is providing a flexible and realistic driving environment for industry, government, and internally sponsored research. This reconfigurable platform allows TASI to test various sensors and driver interfaces, in order to determine effective and convenient solutions to challenges in enhancing safety. Faculty members, research staff and graduate students have been working on several funded research projects such as human factors for semi-autonomous driving systems, intelligent human vehicle interfaces, real vehicle testing for crash-imminent braking system (autonomous braking system), distracted and impaired driving assessment, teen and older driver safety research, dealing with uncertainty in autonomous braking system, etc. TASI has also established an active dialog with other vehicle safety centers around the world through our “Global Academic Network for Active Safety.” Currently, global academic partners include Center for Automotive Research at the Ohio State University, National Advanced Driving Simulator at University of Iowa, University of Wisconsin, Tsinghua University in China, and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden.