RESEARCH ON VEHICLE-BASED DRIVER STATUS/PERFORMANCE MONITORING, PART I

A driver drowsiness detection/alarm/countermeasures system was specified, tested and evaluated, resulting in the development of revised algorithms for the detection of driver drowsiness. Previous algorithms were examined in a test and evaluation study, and were found to be ineffective in detecting drowsiness. These previous algorithms had been developed and validated under simulator conditions that did not emphasize the demand for maintaining the vehicle in the lane as would be expected in normal driving. Revised algorithms were then developed under conditions that encouraged more natural lane-keeping behavior by drivers in the simulator. In these revised algorithms, correlations between dependent drowsiness measures and independent performance-related measures were lower than expected. However, classification accuracy improved when a criterion of "drowsiness or performance" was used, with performance assessed directly from a lane-related measure.

[1]  Ronald R Knipling,et al.  Vehicle-based drowsy driver detection : current status and future prospects , 1994 .

[2]  I D Brown,et al.  Measurement of control skills, vigilance, and performance on a subsidiary task during 12 hours of car driving. , 1967, Ergonomics.

[3]  R C Sugarman,et al.  ROAD TESTS OF ALERTNESS VARIABLES , 1972 .

[4]  Julie Hamilton Skipper.  An investigation of low-level stimulus-induced measures of driver drowsiness , 1985 .

[5]  M. S. Huntley,et al.  Alcohol, Sleep Deprivation, and Driving Speed Effects upon Control Use during Driving , 1974, Human factors.

[6]  Takayuki Yanagishima,et al.  The development of drowsiness warning devices , 1985 .

[7]  D. H. Tilley,et al.  DROWSINESS AND DRIVING: PRELIMINARY REPORT OF A POPULATION SURVEY , 1973 .

[8]  I. E. Loewenfeld,et al.  Pupillary Movements During Acute and Chronic Fatigue A New Test for the Objective Evaluation of Tiredness , 1963 .

[9]  H. Laurell,et al.  Relation between time to falling asleep behind the wheel on a closed track and changes in subsidiary reaction time during prolonged driving on a motorway. , 1986, Ergonomics.

[10]  Ronald R Knipling,et al.  CRASHES AND FATALITIES RELATED TO DRIVER DROWSINESS/FATIGUE , 1994 .

[11]  W W Wierwille,et al.  The Effect of Repeated Emergency Response Trials on Performance during Extended-Duration Simulated Driving , 1982, Human factors.

[12]  R T Wilkinson,et al.  The detection of sleep onset: behavioral, physiological, and subjective convergence. , 1989, Sleep.

[13]  Helen Lenora Hardee.  A comparison of three subsidiary tasks used as driver drowsiness countermeasures , 1985 .

[14]  T. Åkerstedt,et al.  Extreme sleepiness: quantification of EOG and spectral EEG parameters. , 1988, The International journal of neuroscience.

[15]  Walter W. Wierwille,et al.  Human Performance Validation of Simulators: Theory and Experimental Verification , 1975 .

[16]  J. Santamaria,et al.  The EEG of Drowsiness in Normal Adults , 1987, Journal of clinical neurophysiology : official publication of the American Electroencephalographic Society.

[17]  Thomas H Rockwell,et al.  PERFORMANCE DECREMENT IN TWENTY-FOUR HOUR DRIVING , 1967 .

[18]  N L Haworth,et al.  Testing of commercially available fatigue monitors , 1991 .

[19]  J M Ryder,et al.  THE EFFECTS OF FATIGUE AND ALCOHOL ON HIGHWAY SAFETY , 1981 .

[20]  Norman W. Heimstra,et al.  EFFECTS OF FATIGUE ON PERFORMANCE IN A DRIVING DEVICE , 1966 .

[21]  R J Fairbanks,et al.  RESEARCH ON VEHICLE-BASED DRIVER STATUS/PERFORMANCE MONITORING; DEVELOPMENT, VALIDATION, AND REFINEMENT OF ALGORITHMS FOR DETECTION OF DRIVER DROWSINESS. FINAL REPORT , 1994 .

[22]  Walter W. Wierwille,et al.  Validation of a Driving Simulation Facility for Instrument Panel Task Performance , 1990 .

[23]  A H Tickner,et al.  Effects of prolonged driving upon driving skill and performance of a subsidiary task. , 1966, Industrial medicine & surgery.

[24]  Y Miyata,et al.  [Slow eye movements and transitional periods of EEG sleep stages during daytime sleep]. , 1990, Shinrigaku kenkyu : The Japanese journal of psychology.

[25]  S. Hulbert,et al.  BLOOD SUGAR LEVEL AND FATIGUE EFFECTS ON A SIMULATED DRIVING TEST , 1963 .

[26]  Lynne A Ellsworth.  Experimental evaluation of subjective ratings of drowsiness and development of drowsiness definitions , 1993 .

[27]  E D Sussman,et al.  USE OF SIMULATION IN A STUDY INVESTIGATING ALERTNESS DURING LONG-DISTANCE, LOW-EVENT DRIVING , 1971 .

[28]  I D Brown,et al.  A comparison of two subsidiary tasks used to measure fatigue in car drivers. , 1965, Ergonomics.

[29]  W C Dement,et al.  A method for checking interobserver reliability in observational sleep studies. , 1989, Sleep.

[30]  E. I. Dureman,et al.  Fatigue in simulated car driving. , 1972, Ergonomics.

[31]  W W Wierwille,et al.  SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN DRIVER-VEHICLE RESPONSE MEASURES FOR EXTENDED DURATION SIMULATED DRIVING TASKS , 1981 .

[32]  Fletcher N Platt.  A NEW METHOD OF MEASURING THE EFFECTS OF CONTINUED DRIVING PERFORMANCE , 1963 .

[33]  A. Sanders,et al.  Performance Decrement During Prolonged Night Driving , 1977 .