Automated driving of next-generation vehicles cooperating and mixed with pedestrians

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K14317
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Civil engineering project/Traffic engineering
• Research Institution: Nagoya University (2017); The University of Tokyo (2016)
• Principal Investigator: Iryo Miho 名古屋大学, 環境学研究科, 准教授 (80469858)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 井料 隆雅 神戸大学, 工学研究科, 教授 (10362758)
• Research Collaborator: DIAS Charitha ; HASEGAWA Yu
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: パーソナルモビリティ / 歩行者 / バーチャルリアリティ / 混合交通 / 主観的危険度

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Personal mobility vehicle (PMV) is a small vehicle for one person which can move through pedestrian flow. This research aims at clarifying the requirement of PMV maneuver and road environment conditions to achieve safe mixed traffic between PMV and pedestrians. Virtual-reality-based walking simulator in which subjects and virtual PMV or pedestrians can interactively avoid each other is implemented. Through virtual reality experiments, the relationship between subjective danger level of pedestrians from PMV and several influencing factors such as PMV maneuver, sidewalk width, pedestrian density was quantitatively revealed.

Free Research Field

土木計画学・交通工学