CONTROL OF UNINTENDED ACCELERATION
Problem Statement
Through this project, a smart active safety system was developed to be used on CVT based scooters. A load sensor working in conjunction with the brake system of the vehicle helps prevent the event of unintended acceleration by the driver during unmanned conditions.
Unintended Acceleration:
CVT based scooters are quite in the rise in the Indian market and the risk of unintended acceleration is quite high since there is no way to control the vehicle during unmanned conditions. The idea of controlling this phenomenon raised when I watched two people using a CVT scooter where one person was handing the vehicle to the other person, the person getting the vehicle accelerated the vehicle without his knowledge which led to the vehicle getting out of control and pounced hard with very high acceleration. This led me to find a solution for this problem since I found out that this phenomenon is commonplace in CVT scooters.
About the Project:
We designed a smart active safety system to be used on the vehicle's brake system in such a way that, when the consumer gets down from the vehicle, a solenoid actuator engages the brakes of the vehicle in such a way that, in the event of uncontrolled acceleration input, the brakes are engaged which gives the rider some time to realize his error and stop accelerating.
IEEE
Presented my findings at the 2017 2nd IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Engineering (ICITE) conducted at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.
M. S. V. Jagan, P. Saahith and R. M. Vishnu, "Control of unintended acceleration," 2017 2nd IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Engineering (ICITE), Singapore, 2017, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/ICITE.2017.8056870.