Lane Keeping System by Visual Technology

This pdf document, provided by The Center for Advanced Automotive Technology (CAAT), provides an overview of vehicle automation, specifically the Lane Keeping System. Lane Keeping System (LKS) is an advanced active safety system, which uses a front-view camera to detect lane lines and distinguish lateral deviation. It will alert drivers when there is unintentional departure from the driving lane, and then actively steer the vehicle back into the driving lane. In this student project, a webcam and a microcomputer (Raspberry Pi) are connected and mounted on a previously developed modified Radio Controlled (RC) toy car where the car movements are controlled by micro controllers. The obtained images in front of the car are processed by the Open Computer Vision (CV) software. The student’s working processes of design, hardware modification, as well as the algorithm and coding procedures will be observed and recorded. The project activities, the testing results, and the students’ learning experiences and outcomes are presented in this paper.