The paper is focused on an introduction of a set of experiments focused on objective methods used for detection of driving impairment caused by influence of different level of alcohol in blood. It introduces the initial experiments which were performed on our driving simulators; it describes proposed methodology of measurements and data analysis. It covers also the issues of testing track creat...

This paper presents a generic method to evaluate virtual agents that aim at reproducing humans behaviors in an immersive virtual environment. We first use automated clustering of simulation logs to extract humans behaviors. We then propose an aggregation of the agents logs into those clusters to analyze the credibility of agents behaviors in terms of capacities, lacks, and errors by comparing t...

The poster shows initial results at the question to what extent driving simulators can be used to serve as cheap and easy realizable environments for simulating on-the-road behavior. We have conducted two studies comparing the driver’s reaction time in real and simulated settings with the aim to provide a metric for the differences in reaction time. The events were triggered trace-driven (simul...

Inter-vehicle communication is becoming increasingly relevant in the research and development of novel, innovative vehicular applications. To support the driver in his/her primary driving task in an effective non distracting way, these applications need to be evaluated in a realistic context from a driver’s perspective of the VANET environment. In this paper we propose an innovative driver-cent...

This paper proposes a novel control architecture for autonomous vehicle driving in a dynamic and uncertain tra c environment. The architecture is composed of three levels: (1) the operational level deals with a reactive control of a vehicle in a short time cycle; (2) the tactical level decides proper maneuvers based on prediction of future states using probabilistic trafc models; (3) the meta-t...

The primary purposes of a vehicle driver's seat, is to allow them to complete the driving task comfortably and safely. Within each class of vehicle (e.g. passenger, commercial, industrial, agricultural), there is an expected driving position to which a vehicle cabin is designed. This paper reports a study that compares two driving positions, in relation to Light Commercial Vehicles (LCVs), in t...

Seat cushions for high-performance aircraft are typically selected for their ability to meet stringent specifications. One of the major criteria is the safety performance during an ejection. To address the design goals of cushion and material selection, a computational modeling method was developed that accounts for component and subsystem testing, component and subsystem modeling, validation c...

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 we explore the time course of a lane change in terms of the driver’s control and eyemovement behavior. We conducted an experiment in which drivers navigated a simulated multi-lane highway environment in a fixed-base, medium-fidelity driving simulator. We then segmented the driver data into standardized units of time to facilitate an analysis of behavior before, during, and after a...