“ADAPTIVE LIGHTING SYSTEM FOR

AUTOMOBILES”

PROJECT REFERENCE NO. : 37S0363

COLLEGE : VIDYA VIKAS INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY,

MYSORE
BRANCH : ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING
GUIDE : AVINASH NAYAK
STUDENTS : ASHWINI C
DEVARAJA S J
INCHARA N
VASANTH KUMAR B S

Keywords:
ALSA- Adaptive lighting system for automobiles

LCD-Liquid Crystal Display

LDR-Light Dependent Resistor

Introduction:
Preventive and active safety of road vehicles is one of the top priorities in car design and
development nowadays. Passive and active safety systems have been developed in R&D
activities to produce vehicles that will perform at the highest level of safety and ensure
comfortable driving under various conditions. For a vehicle driven on the highway at night, it
is required that light beam should be of high density and should illuminate the road at a
distance sufficiently ahead. Number of vehicles on the roads is increasing day by day. This is
turn forced almost all the vehicle manufactures to think about the extra safety instruments and
electronic controls to attach with these products for giving the users a safety driving in all
road conditions through a mass flow traffic. When a vehicle is driven on the highway at
night, it is required that light beam should be of high density and should illuminate the road at
a distance sufficiently ahead. However, when a vehicle coming in the opposite direction
approaches the vehicle with a high-beam headlight, driver of that vehicle will experience a
glare, which may blind him. This dazzle effect is one of the major problems faced by a driver
in night driving. In practice, one mechanical dimmer switch is used by the driver to manually

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select high (bright) or low (dim) headlight beam. However, this is an awkward task for the
driver especially during peak traffics.

Objective:
Adaptive Lighting System for Automobiles is a smart solution for safe and convenient night
driving without the intense dazzling effect and aftermaths. Adaptive Lighting System for
Automobiles needs no manual operation for switching ON and OFF headlight/down light
(Bright/Dim) when there is a vehicle coming from front at night. It detects itself whether
there is light from the front coming vehicle or not. When there is light from front coming
vehicle, it automatically switches to the down light and when the vehicle passes it
automatically switch back to headlight. The user can adjust the light detection sensitivity of
this Adaptive Lighting System. Along with it to include an automatic wiper system which
automatically clears the moisture accumulated on the outer surface of the glass.

Methodology:
• Flow Chart to Perform Automatic Switching Operation:

When the ALSA system is turned on, the LCD is displays the initial message. At this instant
the relay will be in off position. If light sensor detects any light from front coming vehicle,
the relay will be energized which switches to down light. If light sensor does not detect any
light from front coming vehicle, the relay will not be energized and the head light will remain
in high beam position. The operation will continue until light sensed by LDR. The operation
is depicted in flow chart which is given below.

Fig: Flow Chart to Perform Automatic Switching Operation

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 • Flow Chart to Perform Automatic Wiper Operation

When the ALSA system is turned on, the LCD displays initial message. When the moisture
accumulated on the outer surface of the glass is sensed by moisture sensor the wiper motor
will run. If the moisture sensor does not sense any moisture content, then the wiper will not
be turned on

Fig: Flow Chart to Perform Automatic Wiper Operation

Results and conclusion:

Operation of ALSA comprises of following scenarios: High beam headlight will be
turned on initially when the system is turned on. The system switches to down light when
light is sensed by the light sensor and back to high beam headlight when no light is detected
by the light sensor. And to perform the wiper operation which clears the moisture
accumulated on the outer surface of the glass. Adaptive lighting system can perform a great
deal in reducing the manual efforts and fatigue of drivers in manual switching of the
headlamp frequently while driving through highways full of moving vehicles. However,
vehicles employed with automatic dippers are not very often seen in cities, and it may be due
to lack of information about the system and also because of giving attention to the people
saying that it is not at all practicable in highways. Adaptive lighting systems are devices,
which will attain more and more importance in the forthcoming years. In short, it is a device
with a very bright future. Yes, of course it has got some drawbacks like that one which is
most common, when drivers drive the vehicle fitted with automatic dippers on a road in

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which different types of vehicles and hence varying light intensities cause frequent flickering
of the headlight. Offering the prospect of improved vision during night-time driving, adaptive
lighting system has positive implications for road safety and driver comfort. Customer
demand is expected to increase across market sectors, creating opportunities and challenges
for established vehicle lighting suppliers and new entrants.

Future work:
Real time analysis on number of accidents and mode of accidents taking place in a
high ways can be noted down to construct statistical model. The relationship between
frequency of switching in deep curves on road and the opponent high speed and low speed
vehicles velocity which affects flickering can be carefully studied and construct a resilient
ALSA model. The sensitivity of LDR sensor can be further enhanced to reduce the delay of
switching between high beam and low beam.