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Behavior signal processing for vehicle applications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2013

Chiyomi Miyajima
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Information Science, Department of Media Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
Pongtep Angkititrakul*
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Information Science, Department of Media Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
Kazuya Takeda
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Information Science, Department of Media Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
*
Corresponding author: Pongtep Angkititrakul Email: pongtep@g.sp.m.is.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Abstract

Within the past decade, analyzing and modeling human behavior by processing large amounts of collected data has become an active research field in the area of human–machine interaction. The research community is striving to find principled ways to explain and represent important behavioral characteristics of humans, with the goal of developing more efficient and more effective cooperative interactions between humans, machines, and environment. This paper provides a summary of the progress we have achieved to date in our study, which has focused specifically on interactions between driver, vehicle, and driving environment. First, we describe the method of data collection used to develop our on-the-road driving data corpus. We then provide an overview of the data-driven, signal processing approaches we used to analyze and model driver behavior for a wide range of practical vehicle applications. Next, we perform experimental validation by observing the actual driving behavior of groups of real drivers. In particular, the vehicle applications of our research include driver identification, behavior prediction related to car following and lane changing, detection of emotional frustration, and improving driving safety through driver coaching. We hope this paper will provide some insight to researchers with an interest in this field, and help identify areas and applications where further research is needed.

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Fig. 1. Recursive relationship between driver, vehicle, and environment.

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Fig. 2. Instrumented vehicle.

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Table 1. Summary of driving data acquisition.

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Fig. 3. Examples of driving behavior signals.

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Fig. 4. Examples of gas pedal operation patterns for two drivers (Top: driver 1, Bottom: driver 2) following the same leading vehicle.

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Fig. 5. General modeling of a driving signal.

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Fig. 6. Comparison of identification rates using raw pedal signals and cepstral coefficients.

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Fig. 7. Car following with corresponding parameters.

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Fig. 8. A car-following trajectory (gray dashed line) on different two-dimensional parameter spaces, overlaid with the contour of corresponding two-mixture GMM distribution.

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Fig. 9. Comparison of pedal prediction performance for car-following task using different driver models.

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Fig. 10. Lane-change trajectory and geometric positions of surrounding vehicles.

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Fig. 11. Hazard maps for two drivers when surrounding vehicles were in the same positions.

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Fig. 12. Examples of generated trajectories (black dotted lines) and optimal trajectory (blue dashed line) using sampling method, compared with actual trajectory (red solid line).

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Fig. 13. Average SDRs of lane-change trajectories. Top: the best and mean trajectories using ML method (left) versus sampling method (right). Bottom: using a driver's own model (left) versus using the other driver's model (right).

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Fig. 14. Proposed BN structure. Squares represent discrete (tabular) nodes, and the circle represents a continuous (Gaussian) mode. The number inside each node represents the number of mutually exclusive states the node can assume. Labels outside nodes identify random variable type.

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Fig. 15. Results for individual drivers (arranged side by side) calculated using the entire network. Comparison between actual frustration detected for all drivers (top), posterior probability of the frustration node (center), and its quantized version using a threshold of 0.5 (bottom).

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Fig. 16. Interface summarizes hazardous situations on a driving map.

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Fig. 17. An interface diagnosing a hazardous situation at an intersection.

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Fig. 18. Number of detected hazardous scenes for non-expert drivers who did not receive feedback (top), and for non-expert and expert drivers before and after using the system (bottom).