Download or read book An Analysis of Naturalistic Driver Data in Evaluating Vehicle Longitudinal Control Systems written by Kevin Christopher Lin and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As vehicles with advanced driver assistance systems such as adaptive cruise control (ACC) become more common on the roads, many people have begun to raise concerns about their safety and control. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is actively pursuing research in the performance and safety of different types of these systems in an effort to guide their development and to ensure that they are safe to the public. One fundamental aspect of this pursuit is gaining an understanding of human driver behaviors under normal driving conditions. This document presents an analysis of naturalistic driver data as a means to gage the performance and guide development of vehicle longitudinal control systems such as ACC. First, an analysis of the steady-state behavior is discussed, using a frequency content based approach and method to study and extract significant amounts of data. Next, a method is proposed that uses this extracted data to stochastically replicate these behaviors over indefinitely long periods of time. A second analysis of the same set of naturalistic data is also performed to guide the development of a simplified model of an ACC system based on a second-order single degree-of-freedom (SDOF) mass-spring-damper model. The study of the relationship between the behavior of the leading vehicle and the subsequent behavior of the following vehicle is of particular interest as it is used to gage the performance of the aforementioned ACC model under a series of three different inputs.

Download or read book Automotive Human Machine Interaction HMI Evaluation Method written by Jun Ma and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Development of Optimally Personalized Vehicle Control System and Situational Evaluation Metrics in Crash Imminent Situations written by SeHwan Kim (Mechanical engineer) and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Automotive research and technological development to date have enabled improvement in driving comfort, operational efficiency, motion stability and, most importantly, safety. An expectation for perfect or near-perfect vehicle system automation is increasing. However, the actual application of high-level technologies becomes more challenging as more advanced and complex technologies develop because the roadways in real life are comprised of countless uncertainties. The coexistence of automated vehicles and human-driven vehicles on roadways will be inevitable and drivers exhibit diversified driving habits and decision-making idiosyncrasies, behaving differently even in the same situation. As such, an appropriate understanding of human driver behavior in various driving situations would be beneficial. This dissertation is motivated by a research assumption that people’s driving behavior, even in crash imminent situations, can be predicted by analyzing a wide spectrum of daily driving data which also can be utilized in designing personalized control systems especially in crash imminent situations. This dissertation presents several applications of advanced control theories to replicate and to predict drivers’ longitudinal (i.e. speed control) and lateral (i.e. steering wheel control) control behaviors in various driving situations by utilizing the respective drivers’ historic driving data. In addition, optimally personalized control systems based on personalized situational evaluations in crash imminent situations are presented. Three test vehicles and a virtual reality driving simulator were used to collect driving data. In addition, extensive naturalistic driving data which include several crash and near-crash events were used for identifying driver characteristics. The simulation results showed that the proposed models are able to replicate driving data and predict individual driver’s preferred control inputs, and successfully control a vehicle that adapts to individual drivers in crash imminent situations. The contributions of this dissertation include: 1) an analysis of human driver behavior in various driving situations for driving characteristic identification; 2) development of a prediction model which is able to provide driver’s preferred control inputs; 3) development of a personalized crash-imminence detection model based on drivers’ historic driving data; 4) applications of control theories to develop optimally personalized control models in crash imminent situations; and 5) development of various metrics to evaluate driving situations for personalized decision-making. It is expected that the findings of this dissertation will benefit further research on vehicle stability and safety as well as more advanced vehicle technologies, particularly in personalization technologies.

Download or read book Handbook of Traffic Psychology written by Bryan E. Porter and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Traffic Psychology covers all key areas of research in this field including theory, applications, methodology and analyses, variables that affect traffic, driver problem behaviors, and countermeasures to reduce risk on roadways. Comprehensive in scope, the methodology section includes case-control studies, self-report instruments and methods, field methods and naturalistic observational techniques, instrumented vehicles and in-car recording techniques, modeling and simulation methods, in vivo methods, clinical assessment, and crash datasets and analyses. Experienced researchers will better understand what methods are most useful for what kinds of studies and students can better understand the myriad of techniques used in this discipline. Focuses specifically on traffic, as opposed to transport Covers all key areas of research in traffic psychology including theory, applications, methodology and analyses, variables that affect traffic, driver problem behaviors, and countermeasures to reduce the risk of variables and behavior Contents include how to conduct traffic research and how to analyze data Contributors come from more than 10 countries, including US, UK, Japan, Netherlands, Ireland, Switzerland, Mexico, Australia, Canada, Turkey, France, Finland, Norway, Israel, and South Africa

Download or read book Decision Making Planning and Control Strategies for Intelligent Vehicles written by Haotian Cao and published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intelligent vehicle will play a crucial and essential role in the development of the future intelligent transportation system, which is developing toward the connected driving environment, ultimate driving safety, and comforts, as well as green efficiency. While the decision making, planning, and control are extremely vital components of the intelligent vehicle, these modules act as a bridge, connecting the subsystem of the environmental perception and the bottom-level control execution of the vehicle as well. This short book covers various strategies of designing the decision making, trajectory planning, and tracking control, as well as share driving, of the human-automation to adapt to different levels of the automated driving system. More specifically, we introduce an end-to-end decision-making module based on the deep Q-learning, and improved path-planning methods based on artificial potentials and elastic bands which are designed for obstacle avoidance. Then, the optimal method based on the convex optimization and the natural cubic spline is presented. As for the speed planning, planning methods based on the multi-object optimization and high-order polynomials, and a method with convex optimization and natural cubic splines, are proposed for the non-vehicle-following scenario (e.g., free driving, lane change, obstacle avoidance), while the planning method based on vehicle-following kinematics and the model predictive control (MPC) is adopted for the car-following scenario. We introduce two robust tracking methods for the trajectory following. The first one, based on nonlinear vehicle longitudinal or path-preview dynamic systems, utilizes the adaptive sliding mode control (SMC) law which can compensate for uncertainties to follow the speed or path profiles. The second one is based on the five-degrees-of-freedom nonlinear vehicle dynamical system that utilizes the linearized time-varying MPC to track the speed and path profile simultaneously. Toward human-automation cooperative driving systems, we introduce two control strategies to address the control authority and conflict management problems between the human driver and the automated driving systems. Driving safety field and game theory are utilized to propose a game-based strategy, which is used to deal with path conflicts during obstacle avoidance. Driver's driving intention, situation assessment, and performance index are employed for the development of the fuzzy-based strategy. Multiple case studies and demos are included in each chapter to show the effectiveness of the proposed approach. We sincerely hope the contents of this short book provide certain theoretical guidance and technical supports for the development of intelligent vehicle technology.

Download or read book Behavior Analysis and Modeling of Traffic Participants written by Xiaolin Song and published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A road traffic participant is a person who directly participates in road traffic, such as vehicle drivers, passengers, pedestrians, or cyclists, however, traffic accidents cause numerous property losses, bodily injuries, and even deaths to them. To bring down the rate of traffic fatalities, the development of the intelligent vehicle is a much-valued technology nowadays. It is of great significance to the decision making and planning of a vehicle if the pedestrians' intentions and future trajectories, as well as those of surrounding vehicles, could be predicted, all in an effort to increase driving safety. Based on the image sequence collected by onboard monocular cameras, we use the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) based network with an enhanced attention mechanism to realize the intention and trajectory prediction of pedestrians and surrounding vehicles. However, although the fully automatic driving era still seems far away, human drivers are still a crucial part of the road‒driver‒vehicle system under current circumstances, even dealing with low levels of automatic driving vehicles. Considering that more than 90 percent of fatal traffic accidents were caused by human errors, thus it is meaningful to recognize the secondary task while driving, as well as the driving style recognition, to develop a more personalized advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) or intelligent vehicle. We use the graph convolutional networks for spatial feature reasoning and the LSTM networks with the attention mechanism for temporal motion feature learning within the image sequence to realize the driving secondary-task recognition. Moreover, aggressive drivers are more likely to be involved in traffic accidents, and the driving risk level of drivers could be affected by many potential factors, such as demographics and personality traits. Thus, we will focus on the driving style classification for the longitudinal car-following scenario. Also, based on the Structural Equation Model (SEM) and Strategic Highway Research Program 2 (SHRP 2) naturalistic driving database, the relationships among drivers' demographic characteristics, sensation seeking, risk perception, and risky driving behaviors are fully discussed. Results and conclusions from this short book are expected to offer potential guidance and benefits for promoting the development of intelligent vehicle technology and driving safety.

Download or read book Evaluation and Correlation of Driver vehicle Data Volume I Summary Report written by David H. Weir and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Dynamics of Vehicles on Roads and Tracks written by Martin Rosenberger and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-03-30 with total page 1644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The IAVSD Symposium is the leading international conference in the field of ground vehicle dynamics, bringing together scientists and engineers from academia and industry. The biennial IAVSD symposia have been held in internationally renowned locations. In 2015 the 24th Symposium of the International Association for Vehicle System Dynamics (IAVSD)

Download or read book The 100 car Naturalistic Driving Study written by R. J. Hanowski and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Analysis of Naturalistic Driving Study Data written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRB's second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-S08A-RW-1: Analysis of Naturalistic Driving Study Data: Safer Glances, Driver Inattention, and Crash Risk explores the relationship between driver inattention and crash risk in lead-vehicle precrash scenarios (corresponding to rear-end crashes).

Download or read book Commercial Motor Vehicle Driver Fatigue Long Term Health and Highway Safety written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are approximately 4,000 fatalities in crashes involving trucks and buses in the United States each year. Though estimates are wide-ranging, possibly 10 to 20 percent of these crashes might have involved fatigued drivers. The stresses associated with their particular jobs (irregular schedules, etc.) and the lifestyle that many truck and bus drivers lead, puts them at substantial risk for insufficient sleep and for developing short- and long-term health problems. Commercial Motor Vehicle Driver Fatigue, Long-Term Health and Highway Safety assesses the state of knowledge about the relationship of such factors as hours of driving, hours on duty, and periods of rest to the fatigue experienced by truck and bus drivers while driving and the implications for the safe operation of their vehicles. This report evaluates the relationship of these factors to drivers' health over the longer term, and identifies improvements in data and research methods that can lead to better understanding in both areas.

Download or read book Longitudinal Vehicle Dynamics Control for Improved Vehicle Safety written by Herman Adendorff Hamersma and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book On the Analysis of Naturalistic Driving Data written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Longitudinal Driving Behavior written by Saskia Josephina Leontine Ossen and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Assessing Driver Behavior in the Context of Driving Environment written by Huizhong Guo and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driver-related factors have long been an important component in traffic safety. Studies to assess driver behavior and the related safety concerns have primarily used data that does not capture the dynamic nature of driving tasks. The widespread use of naturalistic driving data in recent years allows researchers the capability to capture real-time driver behavior and be able to infer an individual's driving style. However, current studies focus largely on at-risk safety behavior that is often incomplete (e.g., does not consider all types of at-risk safety behavior) and broadly defined regardless of the driving environment. The goal of this dissertation is to assess driver behavior in the context of the driving environment. This is accomplished using data from the second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP2) Naturalistic Driving Study, which includes more than 3,000 drivers on the road from 2010 to 2013. The concept of "abnormal" driving style is proposed as a complement to "normal" driving style. More specifically, the "abnormality" measures how much a driver deviates from the average driving behavior given the driving context. In this study, the average driving behavior is defined as the average of different vehicle kinematics for drivers that participated in SHRP2 and for a specific environmental context. The study thus aims to examine the association between driving "abnormality" and driver safety. Environmental factors that contribute to the formation of "normal" driving styles were identified in a systematic way through multivariate functional data clustering method and decision trees. The "abnormality" were described by a composite score as well as a set of statistical features that capture the different aspects of a driving style. Path analysis and Structural Equation Modeling method were used to reveal associations between driver safety and driving "abnormality". Results from the study provide insights into driver behavior and implications on driver safety in different environmental contexts. For example, the study showed that drivers who were more likely to crash were also more likely to have unstable lateral control on Urban Interstates. These findings can be integrated in autonomous vehicle algorithms where individual driving styles are considered. It can also provide insights on the development of new technologies to identify risky drivers and to quantify their risky levels.

Download or read book Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of Transportation Research Group of India written by Lelitha Devi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-28 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comprises the proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of Transportation Research Group of India (CTRG2021) focusing on emerging opportunities and challenges in the field of transportation of people and freight. The contents of the volume include characterization of conventional and innovative pavement materials, operational effects of road geometry, user impact of multimodal transport projects, spatial analysis of travel patterns, socio-economic impacts of transport projects, analysis of transportation policy and planning for safety and security, technology enabled models of mobility services, etc. This book will be beneficial to researchers, educators, practitioners and policy makers alike.

Download or read book Naturalistic Driving Study written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRB's second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2)Report S2-S06-RW-1: Naturalistic Driving Study: Technical Coordination and Quality Control documents the coordination and oversight of participant- and vehicle-based operations for an in-vehicle driving behavior field study collected from naturalistic driving data and associated participant, vehicle, and crash-related data. This report documents the methods used by six site contractors located at geographically distributed data collection sites throughout the United States to securely store data in a manner that protects the rights and privacy of the more than 3,000 participants enrolled in the study.