| Swarm
intelligence & traffic Safety |
Definition An
automotive controller that complements the driving experience must work to avoid
collisions, enforce a smooth trajectory, and deliver the vehicle to the intended
destination as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, satisfying
these requirements
with traditional methods proves intractable at best and forces us to consider
biologically -inspired techniques like Swarm Intelligence.
A controller is currently being designed in a robot simulation program with the
goal of implementing the system in real hardware to investigate these biologically-inspired
techniques and to validate the results. In this paper I present an idea that can
be implemented in traffic safety by the application of Robotics & Computer
Vision through Swarm Intelligence. We
stand today at the culmination of the industrial revolution. For the last four
centuries, rapid advances in science have fueled industrial society. In the twentieth
century, industrialization found perhaps its greatest expression
in Henry
Ford's assembly line. Mass production affects almost every facet of modern life.
Our food is mass produced in meat plants, commercial bakeries, and canaries. Our
clothing is shipped by the ton from factories in China and Taiwan. Certainly all
the amenities of our lives - our stereos, TVs, and microwave ovens - roll off
assembly lines by the truck load. Today, we're presented with another solution,
that hopefully will fare better than its predecessors. It goes by the name of
post-industrialism, and is commonly associated with our computer technology with
Robots and Artificial Intelligence. Robots
are today where computers were 25 years ago. They're huge, hulking machines that
sit on factory floors, consume massive resources and can only be afforded by large
corporations and governments. Then came the PC revolution of the 1980s, when computers
came out of the basements and landed on the desktops. So we're on the verge of
a "PR" revolution today - a Personal Robotics revolution, which will
bring the robots off the factory floor and put them in our homes, on our desktops
and inside our vehicles.
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