Design and Development of Vibration Method for Vehicle Reverse System (VRS)

• Main Authors: Kassim, A.M., Jamri, M.S., Aras, M.S.M., Rashid, M.Z.A.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Subjects: Car warning system; Hearing impairment person; Obstacle detection; Vibration motor (vibrator)
• ISSN: 1877-7058; 1877-7058
• DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2012.07.290

This paper discussed on design and development of Vehicle Reverse System (VRS) by using normal beeping car warning system and combination with vibrators in order to support the hearing impaired. This electronic device is an innovation product to support and help those hearing problem people such as elder person and disability person to have their own confident in driving their vehicles especially for detecting distance and location of the obstacle during reverse condition. This project is about developing of car warning system by using a vibrator as a warning device via main processing unit which consists of peripheral integrated circuit (PIC) and other electronic power supply which is received input signals from the distance sensor and translated it into the vibration composition when detecting obstacle. The vibration motor is a best solution to warn the hearing disability person because it uses touch sense of human when the system is run. In this system, there are four pieces of vibration motor are mounted to the driver's seat at different locations. Each location will have its own function that show different direction such as upper left, upper right, bottom left and bottom right. In this project, the effectiveness of the system gives command the direction of obstacle existence is very important and have been confirmed through simulation and experiment.