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Cruise control is a new technological development which

incorporates a factor of comfort in driving.
Safety is only a small benefit of this system.
In short, cruise control can be said to be a system which
uses the principles of radar to determine the distances
between two consecutive moving vehicles in which either
one or both of them is incorporated with this system.
* INTRODUCTION
*WHAT IS CRUISE CONTROL ?
*BASIC OPERATION
*HOW TO SET CRUISE CONTROL?
*ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL
*PARTS AND WORKING
*DANGERS OF CRUISE CONTROL
*FUTURE ASPECTS
*CONCLUSION *
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* Every minute, on average, at least one person dies in a crash.
* Air bags and seat belts save tens of thousands of people a year.
* But the ultimate solution and the only thing that will save far more lives,
limbs and money is ? till 1958.
* Cruise control was commercially introduced in 1958 as an option on the
Chrysler Imperial.
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▪ Cruise control is a system, which automatically controls the speed

of an automobile.

▪ The system takes over the throttle of the car to maintain a steady
speed as set by the driver.

▪ Most cruise control systems don’t allow the use of cruise control
below a certain speed.
▪ Blind inventor and mechanical engineer Ralph teetor invented
cruise control in 1945.
The basic operation of a cruise controller is to sense the speed of the vehicle,
compare this speed to a desired reference, and then accelerate or decelerate
the car as required.

A simple control algorithm for controlling the speed is to use a "proportional plus
integral" feedback.

The performance of the system is robust with respect to it’s mass uncertainty.
Block diagram of cruise control model
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* On &off

* set/accelerate

* Resume

• Coast

• Brake & clutch

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* Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) is an automotive feature that allows a
vehicle's cruise control system to adapt the vehicle's speed to the traffic
environment.
* In May 1998, Toyota became the first to introduce an ACC system on a
production vehicle, luxury sedan.
* ACC systems detect the vehicle ahead through the use of either radar or
lidar (light detecting and ranging).

* Lidar
based ACC systems are limited due to their poor working in bad
whether.
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The main components of a typical radar-based ACC system are

* Fusion sensor
* Headway control unit
* Throttle
* Brake
* Dashboard display

Fusion sensor: It is a combination of sensors and processors. They are

* Millimeter-wave radar
* Stereo camera
* Image processor
* Fusion processor
Architecture of a radar-based ACC system
* Millimeter wave radar: It is a sensor which uses millimeter wave for
detecting the position and velocity of a distant object.

* Range is calculated using the formula

C = 2*R/T
Where ‘C’ is the velocity of light
‘R’ is the range
‘T’ is the time of flight of transmission.
* Stereo camera: The camera’s function is detection of cars and other
objects in the roadway.
* Image processor: It processes the images from the stereo camera and the
data fed into the fusion processor.
* Fusion processor: The function of fusion processor is Data Fusion.

Headway control unit: It has control on the brakes and throttle and uses
dashboard for immediate warnings.

Canceling Cruise Control Operation:

* Brake pedal is pressed
* 'Off' button is pressed
* Vehicle Speed < 25 mph
* An ACC system fault is detected
A car model with advanced cruise control system
DANGERS OF CRUISE CONTROL

It’s use on wet and slippery roads may cause serious problems.
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* CACC(co-operative adaptive cruise control) tested in California.

* At 100 km/hr, that would amount to a distance between cars of less than
14 meters (roughly two car lengths).

* FujitsuTen has demonstrated a prototype system for so called

stop-and-go adaptive cruise control.
* Fully autonomous car is probably not viable in the
foreseen future.

* Near by vehicles would be in constant communication

with each other and act co-operatively.

* It will probably take decades, but car accidents may

eventually become almost as rare as plane crashes are
now.

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