The development of a blind spot monitoring system for commercial vehicles

Modern driver assistance systems for blind spot monitoring are aimed at significantly reducing road accidents, helping drivers to avoid collisions partially or completely when changing lanes. These systems respond faster than humans, work continuously, and are used in various segments of the automotive market. Blind spot monitoring systems constantly monitor the road scene around the vehicle, warn the driver of hazardous road conditions, and can even take corrective action such as slowing down or stopping the vehicle. This work is devoted to the description of the development of a proprietary blind spot monitoring system. A review of the market in the field of blind spot monitoring systems from various car manufacturers is carried out, an algorithm for the functioning of the system being developed is proposed. Virtual tests of the system were carried out in the CARLA simulator, as well as field tests of a real prototype with the installed system at a special testing site of the GAZ group.