Technical Paper
Modeling Driver Adaptation Capabilities in Critical Driving Situations
2012-04-16
2012-01-1179
In order to improve driver safety, car manufacturers propose a wide range of Advanced Driving Assistance Systems (ADAS). Their behavior can drastically modify the vehicle dynamics and generate for the driver a discrepancy between the expected and observed behavior. The modification of car response can also be due to the occurrence of an ADAS component failure. It appears the assessment of the impact of such systems and such events on the driver is a major challenge, which designers have to cope with. However, it appears, the monitoring of driver's response may become complex to implement on real car or even hazardous. The introduction of driving simulator allows overcoming many of these limitations but the conduct of exhaustive experiments is also difficult considering the number of possible events, driving context and involving a wide range of drivers' profiles. The use of driver models which is able to reflect driver control behavior in such conditions is necessary.