Today, we discussed our plans of using a camera based system with our technical advisor. The plan now is to use an Arduino micro-controller to control a camera that utilises facial recognition software to detect lane markings.
The first stage which we will aim to achieve within 2 weeks is to successfully program and demonstrate a camera to detect a selected object. So far, there is the use of MyRobotLab Java Program, Arduino and OpenCV programs which me and my group mate will further research on.
On other fronts, we also discussed the future considerations when we delve deeper into the research and development. We need to consider what to do if the vehicle will actually stray off the lane. A suggestion was that there could be a time delay to keep the warning system actuated should the signal or object tracked (the lane markers) be lost as the vehicle stray.
The other consideration was where to place the cameras to make sure it is durable, is not easily damaged, and can have a good field of vision to detect the lane markings.
The last consideration was to make sure there is a fail-safe mechanism in place should the lane departure system encounter a fault. This would be especially important if the driver developed an over-reliance of the system.
These considerations will be further looked at and researched in the coming week.
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