Construction of preventive driving support system by evaluating drive concentration in three stages

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26350452
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Social systems engineering/Safety system
• Research Institution: Toyohashi University of Technology
• Principal Investigator: Miyake Tetsuo 豊橋技術科学大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 准教授 (60239366)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 予防安全 / 漫然状態 / 視線 / 運転支援

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Careless driving occurs mainly when a driver's consciousness level is depressed caused by fatigue and drowsiness and when a driver concentrates on something other than driving. The former state can be detected easily by a driver's expression however, the latter is hard by its appearance.
In this research we aimed at constructing a driving support system which detects careless driving condition by checking i)validity of eye movement, ii)change of blinking in time, iii)whether a driver fights drowsiness and vi)accelerator and brake pedal operation, and consequently we obtained following results. A: The analysis of i) and vi) were achieved. B: A highly practical way for detecting saccade was developed, instead of ii). C: State of careless driving was detected based on multiple driver information. D: A method of evaluating a degree of drive concentration from frequency of occurrence of careless driving was suggested.

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