This article investigates vehicle steering control, focusing on the task of lane changing and the role of different sources of sensory feedback. Participants carried out 2 experiments in a fully instrumented, motion-based simulator. Despite the high level of realism afforded by the simulator, participants were unable to complete a lane change in the absence of visual feedback. When asked to pro...

Driving behavior models for lane-changing and acceleration form an integral component of microscopic traffic simulators and determine its value in evaluation of different traffic management strategies. The state-of-art model for lane changing adopts a two-level framework: the first level involves a latent or unobserved choice of a target lane; the second level models the acceptance of adjacent ...

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The study and modeling of driver’s gaze dynamics is important because, if and how the driver is monitoring the driving environment is vital for driver assistance in manual mode, for take-over requests in highly automated mode and for semantic perception of the surround in fully autonomous mode. We developed a machine vision based framework to classify driver’s gaze into context rich zones of in...

Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) platoons have been widely researched because of their efficiency advantages. However, most studies mainly focus on the stability control platoon there is a lack in-depth consideration lane changing. In order to make up for this vacancy, study focused dynamic gap in changing process. First, an intra-platoon potential field was established by combining repu...

A robust and high-performance lateral control system is necessary for autonomous bus driving in complex downtown roads. In this paper, a Sliding Mode (SM) controller with an uncertainty observer proposed to reduce the chattering phenomenon while ensuring robustness maintaining performance. stiffness gain introduced cornering of rear wheels compensate model external disturbance. For lane keeping...

Some motor tasks can be completed, quite literally, with our eyes shut. Most people can touch their nose without looking or reach for an object after only a brief glance at its location. This distinction leads to one of the defining questions of movement control: is information gleaned prior to starting the movement sufficient to complete the task (open loop), or is feedback about the progress ...

Deceleration lanes are important because they help drivers transition from high-speed lanes to low-speed ramps. Although they are designed to allow vehicles to depart the freeway safely and efficiently, many studies report high accident rates on exit ramps with the highest percentage of crashes taking place in deceleration lanes. This paper describes the results of a driving simulator study tha...

One of the challenges of lane departure warning (LDW) systems is to differentiate between normal lane keeping behavior and lane change events in which drivers simply do not use the lane change indicator. Lane keeping behavior differs between drivers and often between driving scenarios, therefore a static threshold of predicting steering maneuver is not an ideal solution. The objective of the cu...