Finished:
Ing. Petr Bouchner, Ph.D. Driving Simulators for HMI Research
This work presents a compact view on the discipline of driving simulation.
It introduces some of world-class research driving simulators and problems
of their design and construction as well. A validation of the simulator
functions and validation of the experiments to be preformed on the driving
simulator are described here. Then the requirements on such a device are
analyzed and different approaches to visual, audio and motion cueing are
discussed. The thesis in its second part describes using the driving
simulators for research purposes. A complex system which involves a
simulator incorporated into a set of measuring devices is described in
detail, ways of data collection and analysis are shown. The last and most
comprehensive chapter illustrates the possibilities of the driving
simulator use through the mediation of the complex analyses of four
experiments (which concurrently follows main ways of our investigation);
the two experiments concerning driver's fatigue, summarization of a set of
HMI related measurements and the experiment focused on influence of an
outer environment on driving.
Ing. Stanislav Novotný, Ph.D. Analytical evaluation of technical data from driving simulator experiments
(influence of driver's age on driving safety)
The main aim of my doctoral thesis is to find suitable way of processing
and analyzing data obtained from vehicle simulators, focused mainly on the
safety aspects of driving according to driver's age.
Its first part is dedicated to problems of seniors behind the wheel,
introduction of statistics describing age composition of population and.
number of car accidents. The second part of my thesis describes tools and
equipments used for experiments. The next chapters are dedicated to
various methods of analysis of technical and psychophysiological data.
Main part of the thesis introduces particular experiments, which are
described in details in appropriate chapters. In the last part of the
thesis there are discussed results of the particular experiments analysis.
Ing. Ondřej Sýkora, Ph.D. Monitoring of the changes of the driver’s behaviour by using analysis of car trajectory
This thesis is engaged in monitoring the changes of the driver’s behaviour by using analysis of car trajectory. The research was aimed at the changes that were effected by driver’s fatigue states (those were induced by growing sleep deprivation) and therefore it was executed by a car simulator. The recorded trajectories were used for search of suitable parameters, which could characterise the changes of driver’s behaviour and contain information of the level of driver’s tiredness. These parameters should reliably identify crucial decline of driver’s efficiency. The goal of this thesis was then to prove, that car trajectory includes a range of useful information about driver’s psycho physiological state (especially about the level of his fatigue).
In the first part of this thesis the basic theoretical introduction is provided to set up essential view about behaviour of the human operator in the position of a driver and about his interaction with surroundings.
The methodology of research, measured data processing and analysis of car trajectory itself with the description of individual monitored parameters are given in the second part of this thesis.
All important knowledge resulting of the research is summarised in the conclusion of this thesis. Various possibilities of leading future research to (including the experiment itself and data analysis) are also indicated.
In process:
Ing. Jan Pěkný
Ing. Roman Piekník
Ing. Václav Jirkovský