An assessment of the potential use of driving simulators for the car-driving test

Interest in driving simulators has risen due to new technologies that better resemble real-world driving and the cost reduction of driving simulator development. In recent years, safety researchers commonly use driving simulators to examine complex driving behaviors in a controlled and safe environment. However, the question remains whether or...

The relation between humans’ interactive behavior and fixation behavior in a coupled virtual reality driving simulator

In order to design safe and effective interactions between autonomous vehicles (AVs) and human road users, it is essential to understand the mechanisms underlying human-human merging behavior. Driving simulator experiments can be used to study these mechanisms, but previous research has primarily focused on the behavior of individual drivers...

Hybrid MPC based Motion Cueing Algorithm for Driving Simulators

Driving simulators have been used in the automotive industry for many years now. They have been vastly employed for conducting tests in a safe, reproducible and controlled immersive virtual environment. The ability of the simulator to recreate the in-vehicle experience for the occupant is established through motion cueing algorithms. Such...

Validation of a Moving Base Driving Simulator for Motion Sickness Research

Higher levels of automation in driving may allow drivers to engage in other activities, but may also increase the likelihood of Motion Sickness (MS). The exact causes of MS are not well understood, and various susceptibility factors(e.g. age, gender, ethnicity) can cause large individual differences. To better understand and predict MS, it is...

How do the recognizability and driving styles of automated vehicles affect human drivers’ gap acceptance at T- Intersections?

Future traffic will be composed of both human-driven vehicles (HDVs) and automated vehicles (AVs). To accurately predict the performance of mixed traffic, an important aspect is describing HDV behavior when interacting with AVs. A few exploratory studies show that HDVs change their behavior when interacting with AVs, being influenced by...

Mitigation of Motion Sickness Using Optimal Speed Profiling in Automated Vehicles

It is anticipated that for the automated driving industry to grow, public acceptance is required. The trust and acceptance of automated vehicles are primarily dependent on the travelling experience of people. In automated vehicles, passengers are expected to be engaged in non-driving tasks that are likely to decrease their predictability of the...

The Effects of Conformal Navigation Symbology on Drivers' Visual Search

Driving often requires dividing attention between scanning the environment and following navigation instructions. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of conformal and non-conformal navigation symbology on drivers' visual search. A driving simulator study was conducted where participants drove with conformal and non-conformal...

Model Predictive Control based Haptic Shared Steering System: A Driver Modelling Approach for Symbiotic Driving

Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) aim to increase safety and reduce mental workload. However, the gap in the understanding of the closed-loop driver-vehicle interaction often leads to reduced user acceptance. In this research, an optimal torque control law is calculated online in the Model Predictive Control (MPC) framework to guarantee...

Lane Trace Assist: A methodology for supported steering feel evaluation and optimization

The modern era is witnessing a crucial revolution regarding the driving concept, towards a more assisted and automated way of driving. Despite the advantages such conception have been extensively predicted and supported in literature, a direct transition from manual to fully automated operation is at the current moment not feasible, both for...

Complementing Automotive Haptic Shared Control with Visual Feedback for Obstacle Avoidance

The technological advancements in the automotive industry have enabled the automation of numerous routine driving tasks. As a result, the art of driving has become a control task with a strong supervisory character, including the common human factor issues. Haptic Shared Control has been shown to be useful in keeping the driver in-the-loop by...

Automated Driving Functionality for Intersection Crossing

To reduce the number of traffic accidents on the roads, nowadays computers are aiding humans or taking over control from humans in vehicles. The necessity of Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS) in vehicles is growing. New vehicles are being equipped with ADAS, like Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC), to avoid head-to-tail collisions. Still,...

Reducing conflicts in haptic shared control during curve negotiation

Haptic shared control enables continuous interaction between driver and automatic controller by means of torques on the steering wheel that guide towards a reference trajectory. Current haptic shared control systems induce conflicts when the reference trajectory of the automation differs from the drivers own desired trajectory, which can lead to...