Using license plates recognition for automate cruise control

Abstract

This paper is presenting an experimental assemblage that is proving the principle of following cars by using in a new way a license plate recognition system. Once the license plate of the followed car is focused by a monoscopic CCD camera, its image is recognized and measured by pixel counting. The image's dimension is converted into a measure of the distance between the cars, while its position measures the direction. A simple model car, provided with a CCD camera, is wireless controlled by means of a laptop computer, which is running the Image acquisition Toolbox and the Video and Image Processing Blockset of Matlab Simulink. We draw some preliminary conclusions, project the final algorithm that is to be tested and discuss the future implementation of this method. © 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.