An instrument to measure the lateral position of a vehicle on the road.

Author(s)
Burry, S. & Lagemaat, C. van de
Year
Abstract

An instrument is described which is used in experiments on driving behaviour in order to measure the lateral distance of a vehicle from a given reference line (mostly a white marking line on the road). By means of a rotating prism in front of a photodetector, the instrument scans the road surface sideways of the vehicle and it will detect a light intensity peak at the reference line. From this intensity peak the lateral distance between vehicle and reference line is derived.

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Library number
B 18821 S /73 /83.2 /
Source

Soesterberg, TNO Institute for Perception IZF TM, 1972, 11 p., ref.; IZF 1972-C11

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