Challenge

Project 1 (Mini Project on Vehicle Direction Detection

Aim of the Project:- To identify the direction of the vehicle based on the camera input.

Objective of the Project:-

  1. Development of MATLAB Simulink model as per requirement.
  2. Tag the requirements to the simulink model; tagging requirement 1 & requirement 2 to their corresponding subsystems is fine.
  3. MBD compliant changes, Data Dictionary creation & code generation is added advantage, and that is not scope of this project.
  4. If choosing code generation, Storage class for Input signals: ImportedExtern; Storage class for Output signal: Export to File; Storage class for local signals: localizable; Storage class for calibration signals: Const.
  5. Choose sample time for all signals as 0.01.

General overview

Identifying the direction of the vehicle is one of the important & diverse features in Autonomous driving & Advanced Driver Assistance Features. This particular sub-feature of identifying the direction of the vehicle is basically identifying the direction the vehicle is taking based on the camera input.

The camera reads the road signs & stores them into its memory with unique values for a left turn, right turn & straight drive. Depending on the direction it is taking, the final indication is given to the driver – as an indication if he is driving in the recommended direction or not.

Vehicle Direction Determination can also be coupled alongside features like GPS systems to identify whether the vehicle is reaching its destination in an optimized manner. This sub-feature can also be used along with Lane Detection, Highway Warning, Ramp Entry / Exit in Wrong Way Detection, etc.

Development of model

Requirement - 1:

  • Steering wheel input as yaw rate (Signal name: SteeringWheel_YawDegreeInput) is the input for this system.
  • This is compared against 3 angular values, one each for left turn, right turn & straight drive (Calibration Values: Right_Turn_AngularLimit, Left_Turn_AngularLimit, Straight_Drive_Steering_Angle) to say which specific direction the steering wheel is turning towards.
  • Use switch blocks to compare & develop this requirement. Keep this requirement in a subsystem & output of this requirement is a local signal (Signal Name: Vehicle_Turn_Status).

Requirement – 2:

  • Keep this requirement as a separate subsystem. Inputs to this requirement are local signal from requirement 1 (Signal Name: Vehicle_Turn_Status) & an input signal from camera (Signal Name: CameraInput_RoadSign), which confirms the occurrence of a road sign.
  • Signal Vehicle_Turn_Status is compared against calibration values (Calibration Values: RightTurn_RoadSign, LeftTurn_RoadSign, Straight_RoadSign), if each of them is found equal, then each of the three corresponding output is compared against the camera input signal,
  • Using a logical operator block, only one among them is finally given as output signal (Signal Name: Vehicle_Direction_Indicator).

Configuration Parameter settings

Solver Type is changed from variable step to Fixed step and Solver type is selected as auto (Automatic solver selection) and also sample time is declared as 0.01 sec as per the project requirement.

Also under the Code generation option selecting embedded real time as system target file (ert.tlc) under target selection option.

Creation of Simulink Data Dictionary

Signals & Calibration Data List:

Signal / Calibration Name

Signal Type

Data Type

Dimension

Min

Max

Initial Value

Units

SteeringWheel_YawDegreeInput

Input

Int16

1

-180

180

-

Deg

CameraInput_RoadSign

Input

Boolean

1

0

1

-

-

Vehicle_Turn_Status

Local

Int16

1

-180

180

-

Deg

Right_Turn_AngularLimit

Calibration

Int16

[1 1]

-180

180

30

Deg

Left_Turn_AngularLimit

Calibration

Int16

[1 1]

-180

180

-120

Deg

Straight_Drive_Steering_Angle

Calibration

Int16

[1 1]

-180

180

0

Deg

RightTurn_RoadSign

Calibration

Int16

[1 1]

-180

180

30

LeftTurn_RoadSign

Calibration

Int16

[1 1]

-180

180

-120

Straight_RoadSign

Calibration

Int16

[1 1]

-180

180

0

Vehicle_Direction_Indicator

Output

Boolean

1

0

1

-

-

Requirement Tagging:-

A MS Word file is created which contain all the requirements and necessary information to develop the model appropiately. This Word file is tagged for both the subsystem requirement1 and Requirement2 respectively.

Model Advisor Report Generation:-

To generate the report we have to go over the Modelling tab and then there at Extreme left corner there is a option of Model Advisor and selecting Model Advisor in it.

selecting the Modelling Standard for MAB there and in the right box there is option to Run selected check and clicking over there will run the selected checks

The result of the Modelling Standard for MAB is as shwon below

Code Generation:-

The Code Generation is made byy going over the APP tab and selecting the Embedded coder over there

Now clicking over the build option will create the C code as shown below

/*
* File: proj.c
*
* Code generated for Simulink model 'proj'.
*
* Model version : 1.2
* Simulink Coder version : 9.5 (R2021a) 14-Nov-2020
* C/C++ source code generated on : Mon Oct 17 10:49:42 2022
*
* Target selection: ert.tlc
* Embedded hardware selection: Intel->x86-64 (Windows64)
* Code generation objectives: Unspecified
* Validation result: Not run
*/
#include "proj.h"
#include "proj_private.h"
/* Exported data definition */
/* Const memory section */
/* Definition for custom storage class: Const */
const int16_T LeftTurn_RoadSign = -120;/* Referenced by: '<S5>/Constant' */
const int16_T Left_Turn_AngularLimit = -120;/* Referenced by: '<S2>/Constant1' */
const int16_T RightTurn_RoadSign = 30; /* Referenced by: '<S4>/Constant' */
const int16_T Right_Turn_AngularLimit = 30;/* Referenced by: '<S2>/Constant' */
const int16_T Straight_Drive_Steering_Angle = 0;/* Referenced by: '<S2>/Constant2' */
const int16_T Straight_RoadSign = 0; /* Referenced by: '<S6>/Constant' */
/* External inputs (root inport signals with default storage) */
ExtU_proj_T proj_U;
/* External outputs (root outports fed by signals with default storage) */
ExtY_proj_T proj_Y;
/* Real-time model */
static RT_MODEL_proj_T proj_M_;
RT_MODEL_proj_T *const proj_M = &proj_M_;
/* Model step function */
void proj_step(void)
{
int16_T rtb_Switch;
/* Switch: '<S2>/Switch' incorporates:
* Constant: '<S2>/Constant'
* Constant: '<S2>/Constant1'
* Inport: '<Root>/SteeringWheel_YawDegreeInput'
* Switch: '<S2>/Switch1'
*/
if (proj_U.SteeringWheel_YawDegreeInput >= 30.0) {
rtb_Switch = Right_Turn_AngularLimit;
} else if (proj_U.SteeringWheel_YawDegreeInput != 0.0) {
/* Switch: '<S2>/Switch1' incorporates:
* Constant: '<S2>/Constant2'
*/
rtb_Switch = Straight_Drive_Steering_Angle;
} else {
rtb_Switch = Left_Turn_AngularLimit;
}
/* End of Switch: '<S2>/Switch' */
/* Outport: '<Root>/Vehicle_Direction_Indicator' incorporates:
* Constant: '<S4>/Constant'
* Constant: '<S5>/Constant'
* Constant: '<S6>/Constant'
* Inport: '<Root>/CameraInput_RoadSign'
* Logic: '<S3>/AND'
* Logic: '<S3>/AND1'
* Logic: '<S3>/AND2'
* RelationalOperator: '<S4>/Compare'
* RelationalOperator: '<S5>/Compare'
* RelationalOperator: '<S6>/Compare'
*/
proj_Y.Vehicle_Direction_Indicator[0] = ((rtb_Switch == RightTurn_RoadSign) &&
proj_U.CameraInput_RoadSign);
proj_Y.Vehicle_Direction_Indicator[1] = ((rtb_Switch == LeftTurn_RoadSign) &&
proj_U.CameraInput_RoadSign);
proj_Y.Vehicle_Direction_Indicator[2] = ((rtb_Switch == Straight_RoadSign) &&
proj_U.CameraInput_RoadSign);
}
/* Model initialize function */
void proj_initialize(void)
{
/* (no initialization code required) */
}
/* Model terminate function */
void proj_terminate(void)
{
/* (no terminate code required) */
}
/*
* File trailer for generated code.
*
* [EOF]
*/
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