Semi-autonomous vehicles are increasingly serving critical functions in various settings from mining to logistics to defence. A key characteristic of such systems is the presence of the human (drivers) in the control loop. To ensure safety, both the driver needs to be aware of the autonomous aspects of the vehicle and the automated features of the vehicle built to enable safer control. In this ...

A driver-vehicle scheduling problem in a limousines rental company is studied. Given a set of trip demands to be covered, the goal is to find a driver-vehicle schedule that covers as many as possible of the required demands while satisfying a set of imperative constraints and optimizing several cost objectives. A formulation of the problem is given and a solution approach using local search is ...

{ This paper copes with the problem of motion execution monitoring for a car-like vehicle moving in a subset of the road network. Our nal goal is to design an architecture for planning and controlling the motion of the vehicle. This architecture must enable the vehicle to optimize its behaviour autonomously and in real-time { in other words, to avoid stationary and moving obstacles in its local...

The over representation of novice drivers in crashes is alarming. Research indicates that one in five drivers’ crashes within their first year of driving. Driver training is one of the interventions aimed at decreasing the number of crashes that involve young drivers. Currently, there is a need to develop comprehensive driver evaluation system that benefits from the advances in Driver Assistanc...

sleep deprivation is a condition of not having enough sleep it can be either chronic or acute. a chronic sleep-restricted state can cause fatigue. fatigue is a subjective state related to sleep deprivation, the more someone is deprived of sleep the more likely that person is to be fatigued. several studies indicated that drowsiness/fatigue can affect steering performance and speed control. rese...

Most of the collision warning systems currently available in the automotive market are mainly designed to warn against imminent rear-end and lane-changing collisions. No collision warning system is commercially available to warn against imminent turning collisions at intersections, especially for left-turn collisions when a driver attempts to make a left-turn at either a signalized or non-signa...

This is an electronic system that allows the vehicle to slow while approaching another vehicle and accelerate again to the preset speed when traffic is cleared. It also warns the driver or applies brake if there is a high risk of a collision. In this project we are going to develop the micro controller based automatic vehicle speed control system. Now-a-days we can see that more number of accid...

This paper aims to develop a driver steering model that can capture driver’s key steering mechanisms from a control engineering point of view. Analyses with Double Lane Change (DLC) vehicle test data suggest that, instead of following the traditional concept of trajectory planning, drivers use target points located along the centerline of the lane they are changing to as references for control....

This research initiative explores methods for augmenting and deepening the relationship between a vehicle and its driver(s) over the course of its ownership lifecycle. Using a variety of in-car and cloud-based computing technologies, the USC Mobile and Environmental Media Lab is developing a suite of integrated real-time applications that monitor and analyze the activities of both driver and ve...

The Unified Tool for Mapping Opportunities for Safety Technology (UTMOST) is a model of crash data that incorporates the complex relationships among different vehicle and driver variables. It is designed to visualize the effect of multiple safety countermeasures on elements of the driver, vehicle, or crash population. We have recently updated UTMOST to model the effects of the time-course of fl...