Project

A thesis work has been carried out at Chalmers to improve VRU safety. In this project, Martin Idegren and Tomas Andersson, under the supervision of Marco Dozza, developed and tested a wearable system able to acquire VRU and environment information in real-traffic, real-time processing this information, and communicate wireless. Such system is called MASCOT (Personal Monitoring and Assisting System for Cooperative Applications Outdoors and in Traffic) and it is an open platform for collection, real-time analysis and communication of VRU motion. The system has been tested in realtraffic for pedestrian and cyclist with basic application (e.g. a warning was given to pedestrian who did cross a zebra crossing without looking both left and right prior to initiating crossing). The purpose is to 1) write a new project for the further development of MASCOT with support from SAFER partners; 2) implement one demo application for pedestrian (refinement of an existing one) and one for cyclists (new development); 3) develop basic analysis tool for analysis of movement from inertial sensors; 4) write documentation for the system (hardware, algorithms, installation, and analysis tools); 5) replicate the MASCOT prototype system to favour development and to have a back-up; 6) complete and submit a paper to IEEE.