Citation

Bergholz J, Henze R, Kucukay F. VDI Berichte 2006; (1960): 281-306.

Affiliation

TU Braunschweig

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, VDI Verlag)

DOI

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Abstract

Increasing the road safety and reducing the number of accidents results in the fact that research and development of vehicles focus more and more on the driver. The reason for this is, besides the recognition of the vehicle condition, the major role the driver and his ability to drive a vehicle safely play in accident avoidance. The current research approaches concerned with the identification of driver performance can be divided into two methods, the direct and the indirect methods. The direct method is usually used for sensing drowsiness or attentiveness and includes all the approaches that classify the driver performance by directly observing the driver. The indirect method includes all those approaches that acquire the interaction between driver, vehicle and road (drv-parameter space) and deduce parameters which allow statements about the driver performance by their connection or their changes via time. In accordance with this article, two indirect method approaches will be described. The realised driving tests and chosen results of both approaches will be presented. The first case is based on lane detection. For this purpose, the vehicle guidance on the lane by the driver via time is detected. By means of the determined tracking behaviour, conclusions regarding the present driver performance can be drawn. The second approach of the indirect method is the identification of driver performance resulting from driver response. Thus, the parameters describing the loop driver-vehicle-road are looked at. The identified driver parameters or their time changes are used as input parameters for assessing the driver performance. Finally, the potentials of both approaches will be summarised and an outlook to further studies will be given.