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The perception system is one of the important components of autonomous vehicles, as it provides the information that is required by vehicle control to make decisions on the manoeuvre of the vehicle. The study focuses on the development of target prediction using sensor fusion algorithm for Level 3 autonomous vehicle in Malaysian environment. The sensor fusion algorithm was developed to unify the data from the sensors and obtain useful information, where the closest object around the ego vehicle was determined in the project. In order to display the closest object around the ego vehicle, the relative distances of the objects were calculated. The closest object among the cameras, the closest object in each camera and warning for nearby object were displayed on the output images. To study the performance of sensor fusion algorithm developed in Malaysian traffic, the virtual environment model of MyAV Route A was developed by using RoadRunner. There were two cases developed to observe how would the algorithm perform. The first test case was on target prediction using sensor fusion algorithm on flat road, while the second test case was on target prediction along a slope. It was shown that the algorithm performed well from the two test cases, as the vehicles and pedestrians were detected and displayed successfully with confidence score of above 0.72 and 0.87, respectively, even with views from different angles and locations of cameras.
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This work is part of the research projects entitled “Virtual Validation Assessment on Perception Level for Autonomous Vehicle” from SASEA Fellowship at Nanyang Technological University and “Optimizing Lateral Skyhook Dampers of Adaptive Rollover Prevention System for High Deck Vehicle due to Lateral Impact” with grant code FRGS/1/2022/TK02/UNIM/02/1. This research is fully supported by Singapore National Academy of Science and Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS). Both grants are led by Assistant Professor Ir. Ts. Dr. Vimal Rau Aparow, the head of Automated Vehicle Engineering System (AVES) research group. The team also would like to thank Centre of Excellence for Testing and Research of Autonomous Vehicles–NTU (CETRAN) for continuous support.
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Weun, N.Y., Onn, L.K., Hong, C.J., Aparow, V.R. (2024). Sensor Fusion-Based Target Prediction System for Virtual Testing of Automated Driving System. In: Mohd. Isa, W.H., Khairuddin, I.M., Mohd. Razman, M.A., Saruchi, S.'., Teh, SH., Liu, P. (eds) Intelligent Manufacturing and Mechatronics. iM3F 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 850. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-8819-8_2
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