A preliminary study on the role of torque feedback in the steering wheel was conducted on the Clio dynamic driving simulator at RENAULT. An experiment comparing different torque feedback strategies was conducted to evaluate the potential of driving simulators in the study of future steer-by-wire systems. The results indicate that drivers on the simulator can control their vehicles in curves wit...

This study developed the simulator for knocking analysis that enables knocking discrimination and engine balance correction applicable to the ECU exclusive to the industrial CRDI engine. The purpose of this study is to provide the driver-oriented diagnostic services that enable drivers to diagnose vehicles directly by developing diagnostic devices for vehicles with the use of the results of the...

Simulating large city traffic in microscopic is one of the fundamental technology to understand the nature of urban traffic. Also, nowadays, it is recognized that the variousness of driver behaviors plays an important role in overall traffic. In order to provide an experimental environment to simulate large city traffic with multiple driver behaviors, we designed and developed a large-scale mic...

The expansion of Malaysia’s automobile industry has witnessed the emergence of driver assistance system (DAS) that enables the interaction between the driver and the vehicle. Over the past few years, DAS has become a necessity and is commonly found on conventional vehicles instead of as luxury equipments on high-end vehicles. The rapid development of DAS provides drivers with radically enhanced...

The objective of this thesis is to implement a basic, yet realistic, ESC system into the VTI simulator environment. This system is then validated to assure that it is working properly and provides a realistic behavior. The implemented ESC system is used in a study, where the ESC system could be turned on and off, to evaluate the benefits of an ESC system after a side impact. This study shows th...

In this paper a robust road departure avoidance system based on a closed-loop driver decision estimator (DDE) is presented. The main idea is that of incorporating the driver intent in the control of the vehicle. The driver decision estimator computes the vehicle look ahead lateral position based on the driver input and uses this position to establish the risk of road departure. To induce a risk...

The automobile industry has produced many cars with new features over the past decade. However, the interaction between the driver and the car has not changed significantly. The information being delivered – both in quantity and method – from the car to the driver has not seen the same improvements as there have been “under the hood.” This paper proposes immersing the driver inside an additiona...

This paper describes the potential of using vibro-tactile displays for automobile drivers. Technological developments in the field of driver support systems and tactile displays, combined with the ever increasing need to enlarge the capacity of the driver's information channel, form the reason to review the possibilities of in-car tactile displays and to identify some promising applications. In...