Monitoring Driver - Vehicle Control in Automated Driving Applications

Making automated driving support – Driver-vehicle task allocation

For partly automated driving, allocation of (sub)tasks between driver and vehicle is often considered from a technological or legal point-of-view. However, partial automation often leads to reduced operability after transitions to manually driving. Therefore, this paper presents a concise method for a more distinct task-allocation whilst accounting for various aspects influencing out-of-the-loo...

Vehicle Control in Cooperative Driving

Study on Driver Emotion in Driver-Vehicle-Environment Systems Using Multiple Networked Driving Simulators

Driving simulators have been widely used to investigate driver behavior and psychophysiological responses. In this paper, we proposed to use multiple participant-operated driving simulators which communicate with each other so the platoon formed by the simulators can demonstrate realistic effects of driver-driver interaction in simulation scenarios. In our preliminary experiment, three driving ...

Highly Automated Driving, Secondary Task Performance, and Driver State

OBJECTIVE A driving simulator study compared the effect of changes in workload on performance in manual and highly automated driving. Changes in driver state were also observed by examining variations in blink patterns. BACKGROUND With the addition of a greater number of advanced driver assistance systems in vehicles, the driver's role is likely to alter in the future from an operator in manu...

Safe Transitions Between a Driver and an Automated Driving System

This paper presents a methodology for achieving functional safety for an automated driving system (SAE Level 4) with respect to safe transitions between the driver and the system. Safety analysis and assessment of an implementation example show how to allocate safety requirements on HumanMachine Interface (HMI) components to handle the risks of unfair transition, mode confusion and stuck in tra...