System for guiding an obstacle avoidance direction including...

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2011-06-07

2011-06-07

Alsomiri, Isam (Department: 3665)

Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location

Relative location

Collision avoidance

C367S118000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07957901

ABSTRACT:
An obstacle avoidance system having an ultrasonic sensor is provided. The system includes an ultrasonic sensor array having at least one ultrasonic sensor for measuring a distance to an obstacle using an ultrasonic wave, an orientation tracker for tracking a proceeding direction, an controller for receiving distance data and orientation data from the ultrasonic sensor array and the orientation tracker, respectively, and for determining an avoidance orientation based on the distance data and the orientation data, and an avoidance orientation guiding unit for informing the pedestrian of the avoidance orientation determined by the controller. The controller stores distance data for a certain number of previous frames and, if the controller determines that distance data of a first frame is noise, the distance data of the first frame is replaced with an average between the distance data of a frame prior to the first frame and the distance data of a frame after the first frame. Also, the controller calculates an amount of orientation change for a second frame using the orientation data of the orientation tracker and regards the distance data of the second frame as noise, if the calculated amount of orientation change is greater than a threshold.

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