Rollover incidents of military vehicles have resulted in soldiers incurring injuries or losing their lives. A recent
report identified that one cause of vehicle rollovers is the driver's inability to assess rollover threat, such as a
cliff, soft ground, water, or culvert on the passenger side of the vehicle. The vehicle's width hinders the
driver's field of view. To reduce the number of military vehicles rolling over, a road edge detection and driver
warning system is being developed to warn the driver of potential rollover threats and keep the driver from
veering off the side of the road. This system utilizes a unique, ultra-fast, image-processing algorithm based on
the neurobiology of insect vision, specifically fly vision. The system consists of a Long-Wavelength Infrared
(LWIR) camera and visible spectrum monochrome video camera system, a long-range laser scanner, a
processing module in which a biomimetic image processor detects road edges in real-time, and a Driver's
Vision Enhancer (DVE) which displays the road image, detected boundaries and road-side terrain steepness
in real-time for the driver.
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