ABSTRACT OF ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL SYSTEM

Every minute, on an average, at least one person dies in a crash. Even the latest advances in the fields of science and technology we have developed safety systems, such as air bags and seat belts, which save thousands of people. But the ultimate solution, and the only one that will save far more lives and limbs, is to keep the cars away from crashing. Adaptive cruise control {ACC) is an expansion of the existing cruise control systems , which in general maintain the vehicle speed through a link in the vehicle power train. With the help of this ACC, we not only sense the occurrence of a collision, instead we can even minimize the effect of a collision or altogether prevent the collision itself. Here, we can always maintain a set head way distance between the host & the preceding vehicle. The concept of assisting driver in the task of longitudinal vehicle control is known as cruise control. Starting from the cruise control devices of the seventies and eighties, now the technology has reached cooperative adaptive cruise control. The conventional cruise control was capable only to maintain a set speed by accelerating or decelerating the vehicle. Adaptive cruise control devices are capable of assisting the driver to keep a safe distance from the preceding vehicle by controlling the engine throttle and brake according to the sensor data about the vehicle. Most of the systems use RADAR as the sensor.