RF Vehicle Control

2021UEE4028 SHORYA KAKRAN

2021UEE4611 NISHANT TOMER
2021UEE4622 TAMANNA
2021UEE4023 RITIK YADAV

Mid Term Review

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 Contents
• Introduction
• Literature Survey
• Gaps Identified
• Aims/Objectives of the Project
• Problem Statement
• Solution Methodology
• Future work to be done
• Estimated Outputs
• References
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 Introduction
• Overview: The project focuses on automatic speed control of vehicles in specific
zones (e.g., schools, hospitals, highways) using RF transmitters and receivers.
• Objective: Ensure road safety through obstacle detection and accident prevention
by integrating speed control with an alcohol sensor to monitor and prevent
accidents caused by impaired driving.
• Problem Statement: With increasing accidents due to high speeds and impaired
driving, automated safety measures are critical for saving lives.

Expectations:
• Seamless Vehicle Speed Regulation: Automatic speed reduction when entering
high-risk zones (e.g., school zones, U-turns).
• Accident Prevention: Early detection of obstacles and obstacles within the
vehicle’s path, automatically slowing down the vehicle.

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 Literature Survey
Introduction to RF-based Speed Control:
• Key Concept: Use of RF transmitters and receivers to automatically control vehicle speed
in designated zones (schools, hospitals, etc.).
• Current Applications: RF communication is widely used in remote monitoring, traffic
systems, and automated control mechanisms. Highlight how this technology is already
being used in some areas for traffic management.
• Potential Integration with IoT: RF transmitters can be integrated into broader IoT
networks for real-time traffic management, allowing authorities to dynamically change
speed limits based on traffic flow and weather conditions.
• Challenges: Current limitations include issues like signal interference from other RF
sources, ensuring compatibility with all vehicle types, and creating a system that is
fail-proof in high-traffic areas.
• Source: Research Gate
(https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329076344_Intelligent_Smart_Zone_Based_Veh
icle_Speed_Control_System_Using_RF)

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 Literature Survey
Alcohol Detection for Accident Prevention
• Summary of Research: Alcohol sensors are commonly used to prevent drunk driving, with
a significant reduction in road accidents where such systems are implemented.
• Key Findings: Studies show that implementing alcohol sensors in vehicles helps in
reducing the number of accidents caused by impaired driving.
• New Technologies: Newer alcohol sensors integrate with smartphones or in-vehicle
displays to provide real-time alerts to both drivers and law enforcement when a driver
attempts to operate a vehicle under the influence.
• Future Development: Future systems may integrate facial recognition and biometric
sensors to identify impaired drivers and respond automatically, even if the driver bypasses
the ignition lock.
• Source: National Library of Medicine
(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8625476/)
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 Literature Survey
Obstacle Detection and Safety Measures
• Obstacle Detection Technologies: Various sensors (e.g., ultrasonic, radar) are being used
for obstacle detection and accident prevention in vehicles.
• Key Research Findings: Highlight the success of these sensors in reducing collisions and
how they can integrate with speed control systems.
• Artificial Intelligence (AI): AI-enhanced obstacle detection can predict the trajectory of
moving obstacles, such as pedestrians or cyclists, and take preventive action based on
predictive models, making these systems even more effective.
• Challenges: While obstacle detection systems are effective, false positives (where the
system detects obstacles that are not dangerous) and false negatives (failure to detect)
remain challenges that need further refinement.
• Source: Research Gate
(https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337842014_Obstacle_detection_using_ultrasoni
c_sensor_for_a_mobile_robot)

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 Gaps Identified
• Combined Effectiveness of Multiple Safety Technologies: Most studies focus on the
effectiveness of individual safety systems like RF-based speed control or alcohol detection.
However, very few studies investigate how these systems interact when combined. For
example, a vehicle might be in a speed-controlled zone with RF technology, while the driver
is impaired or there’s an obstacle ahead. How should these systems prioritize and respond in
real time? Current research does not offer comprehensive insights into these situations.

• AI and Predictive Algorithms: Using machine learning or AI algorithms, your system can
analyze multiple data points (from RF transmitters, alcohol sensors, and obstacle detectors) to
predict and prevent accidents more effectively. AI could also help optimize responses by
learning from past driving behaviors and patterns.This integration of AI is absent from past
researches.

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 Aims/Objectives of the Project
The aim of this project is to develop and implement an integrated vehicle safety system
that automatically controls vehicle speed in designated high-risk zones (such as schools,
hospitals, and highways) using RF transmitter technology, while also enhancing road
safety through obstacle detection and alcohol impairment prevention.

The main objectives of the following projects are

• Making the roads safer for every person in the world.
• For controlling the irresponsible and reckless driving of the vehicle drivers.
• Controlling speed of the vehicles in some special selected zones where the speed limit
of the vehicle is to be set by the governing authority.

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 Problem Statement
There are some roads in every state or country which deals with high traffic over the year.
As a there must be a certain speed limit in those roads for convenient vehicle running. Also
in Busy places like – Roads in front of Schools, Colleges, Universities, Government
Official Buildings, U-turns etc. are always at high risk for occurring road accidents. So our
group decided to make these important places a special safe zone for the children as well as
the adults. This safe zone will ensure a certain speed limit of the vehicles so that these
vehicles are forced to drive within or below a minimum speed limit whenever they are
within that range.

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 Methodology
• Every year a huge number of road accidents take place just because of careless driving of the
drivers and people get hurt and killed because of this. The story is more hideous for those who
gets badly injured and become physically disabled person. This must come to an end.
• The restless driving must be controlled. So we thought of introducing special safe zones over
the country in which vehicles will automatically be forced to keep their velocity to some safe
level and can not accelerate their vehicle while they are in that zone.
• These zones will be created by keeping focus in public places like Schools, Hospitals, Busy
Roads, U-Turns etc.

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 Future work to be done
Problem Formulation / Remaining Study
• Formulation: The project addresses the challenge of reckless driving, speeding, and accident
prevention in high-risk zones like schools, hospitals, and U-turns using RF-based speed control,
obstacle detection, and alcohol sensors.
• Remaining Study: Integration of these technologies into a single, cohesive system and evaluation of its
real-world effectiveness in reducing accidents and improving safety.

Technique/Approach to be Used
• RF Technology: Use of 433 MHz RF transmitters to automatically limit speed in designated zones.
• Alcohol Detection: Integration of sensors to prevent operation when driver impairment is detected.
• Obstacle Detection: Use of ultrasonic/radar sensors to avoid collisions.

Research Paper & Potential Journal/Conference

• Potential Journals/Conferences:
• IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
• International Journal of Vehicle Safety
• Conference on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)

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 Estimated Outputs
We are doing this project with keeping doors open for further modifications and more sophisticated
analysis of speed controlling for vehicles. So some future scopes related to this project is given
below:
• We wish to make a vehicle that can locate its position from the available map of the city and
decide by itself about the highest speed limit for any particular road or highway.
• An autonomous vehicle is the ultimate target of this project that can run without the help of a
driver and keeping the opportunity of the option from the operator of the car whether he or she
would like to run the vehicle by himself/herself or run the vehicle by autonomous system.
• In future we would like to recommend to introduce security system within the car and vehicle
tracker with GPS data and speed of that vehicle from remote places.

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References

For making this report following references were used:

1. Aciatore, D.G, Histant, M.B, 2012, Introduction to Mechatronics and Measurement System,
4th ed, McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.
2. Robotics, Mechatronics and Artificial Intelligence, Newton C. Braga
3. For Motor Driver and Arduino Circuit Analysis, http://www.instructables.com/
4. Troubleshooting, http://www.engineersgarage.com/
5. For PWM generation and controlling, http://www.circuitstoday.com/
6. For Practical instruction and troubleshooting, YouTube

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 Thank You.
2021UEE4028 SHORYA KAKRAN
2021UEE4611 NISHANT TOMER
2021UEE4622 TAMANNA
2021UEE4023 RITIK YADAV

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