AIMC Topic: Safety

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Rule extraction from an optimized neural network for traffic crash frequency modeling.

Accident; analysis and prevention
This study develops a neural network (NN) model to explore the nonlinear relationship between crash frequency and risk factors. To eliminate the possibility of over-fitting and to deal with the black-box characteristic, a network structure optimizati...

Does assisted driving behavior lead to safety-critical encounters with unequipped vehicles' drivers?

Accident; analysis and prevention
With Intelligent Transport Systems (e.g., traffic light assistance systems) assisted drivers are able to show driving behavior in anticipation of upcoming traffic situations. In the years to come, the penetration rate of such systems will be low. The...

Hazard Detection for Motorcycles via Accelerometers: A Self-Organizing Map Approach.

IEEE transactions on cybernetics
This paper deals with collision and hazard detection for motorcycles via inertial measurements. For this kind of vehicles, the most difficult challenge is to distinguish road's anomalies from real hazards. This is usually done by setting absolute thr...

Toward High-Throughput Predictive Modeling of Protein Binding/Unbinding Kinetics.

Journal of chemical information and modeling
One of the unaddressed challenges in drug discovery is that drug potency determined in vitro is not a reliable indicator of drug activity in vivo. Accumulated evidence suggests that in vivo activity is more strongly correlated with the binding/unbind...

Can cyclist safety be improved with intelligent transport systems?

Accident; analysis and prevention
In recent years, Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) have assisted in the decrease of road traffic fatalities, particularly amongst passenger car occupants. Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs) such as pedestrians, cyclists, moped riders and motorcyclists, h...

An Improved Genetic Fuzzy Logic Control Method to Reduce the Enlargement of Coal Floor Deformation in Shearer Memory Cutting Process.

Computational intelligence and neuroscience
In order to reduce the enlargement of coal floor deformation and the manual adjustment frequency of rocker arms, an improved approach through integration of improved genetic algorithm and fuzzy logic control (GFLC) method is proposed. The enlargement...

Fuzzy logic inference-based Pavement Friction Management and real-time slippery warning systems: A proof of concept study.

Accident; analysis and prevention
Minimizing roadway crashes and fatalities is one of the primary objectives of highway engineers, and can be achieved in part through appropriate maintenance practices. Maintaining an appropriate level of friction is a crucial maintenance practice, du...

Introducing RiskSOAP to communicate the distributed situation awareness of a system about safety issues: an application to a robotic system.

Ergonomics
This paper introduces the RiskSOAP ('RiskSOAP' is the abbreviation for Risk SituatiOn Awareness Provision.) indicator to measure the capability of a complex socio-technical system to provide its agents with situation awareness (SA) about the presence...

Support vector machine in crash prediction at the level of traffic analysis zones: Assessing the spatial proximity effects.

Accident; analysis and prevention
In zone-level crash prediction, accounting for spatial dependence has become an extensively studied topic. This study proposes Support Vector Machine (SVM) model to address complex, large and multi-dimensional spatial data in crash prediction. Correl...