Pedestrian Collision Avoidance in Autonomous Vehicles: A Review

Abstract

Pedestrian collision avoidance is a crucial task in the development and democratization of autonomous vehicles. The aim of this review is to provide an accessible overview of the pedestrian collision avoidance systems in autonomous vehicles that have been proposed by the scientific community over the last ten years. For this purpose, we propose a classification of studies in the literature in terms of the following: (i) pedestrian detection methods, (ii) collision avoidance approaches, (iii) actions, (iv) computing methods, and (v) test methods.