Estimation of road situations and driver's intention in automotive electronic control system

This paper describes the significance and feasibility of a method based on pattern recognition and an application example of the estimation of road situations and driver's operating intentions (RSDOI). The information of RSDOI is not same in form as the state parameters. According to the specialty of RSODI, a fuzzy pattern recognition method is raised to estimate the information. Some relations between the driver, road, automobile and the electronic control systems of the automobile are illustrated.