2nd ICAI 2022

International Conference on Automotive Industry 2022

Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic

A new solution to facilitate driver parking is the Optical Parking System (OPS). It provides comfort and a perfect overview when parking. On the screen, the on-board driver can monitor the area behind the vehicle and adjust the maneuverer according to the displayed parking lanes, derived from the width of the vehicle. The system uses the image on the display to show the current distance to the obstacle. The OPS system facilitates parking, and the driver can determine exactly when the car is approaching an obstacle. Parking uses wide-angle digital cameras that can help or completely replace rear-view mirrors in the future. The image from the camera allows easy monitoring of the traffic situation behind the vehicle on the display. The system is activated when reverse gear is engaged. The development of parking support systems is called a parking assistant. VW has developed a system that allows the car to be parked automatically, without any driver intervention. The system uses ultrasonic sensors to scan the area around the vehicle and evaluate whether there is enough free space to park the vehicle and, if it evaluates positively, it will automatically park the vehicle. During the manoeuvre, the driver operates only the accelerator and brake pedals, the vehicle is always taken over by the parking assistant. The multifunction display and audio signals from the driver’s parking sensors provide information on the distances at the front and rear of the vehicle. In conditions of reduced visibility and at night, a system called “night vision” is very useful. Night vision uses infrared light, which the human eye does not perceive and thus does not blind oncoming vehicles. In addition to the usual lights, two infrared headlights illuminate the road and, with the dipped beam on, widening the driver’s field of view by a further 150m. The night visibility system will help identify pedestrians, cyclists, parked vehicles, and other obstacles on the road much earlier. An infrared camera is built into the windshield, which records the image of the road ahead and transmits it to the display. “Night vision” vehicle imaging system (Kalašová et al., 2022).

Figure 6: The principle of operation of intelligent vehicles

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