Effects of Motion Cueing on Curve Driving

A curve negotiation task at a prescribed and constant velocity was performed in the presence of external disturbances. The driver's goal was to simultaneously minimize the heading error and lateral position error. The present paper investigates the separate contributions of the road tracking and the disturbance to the heading and position errors, and more important, the effect of motion on these contributions. Four different motion cueing conditions were tested: 1) rumble only, 2) one-to-one yaw, 3) centrifuge with onset yaw, and 4) lateral track with onset yaw. It was concluded that none of the motion cueing conditions had a significant or large effect on the performance or control activity. The goal of the present study is to objectively investigate the effects of several different motion cueing solutions on the human steering behaviour during curve driving in the presence of disturbances. We used the Desdemona simulator to test four different motion cueing algorithms. The experiment was designed to enable system identification and parameter estimation of the driver model. The used design also allows to differentiate between the target following and disturbance rejection effects. The present paper will only focus on those results.

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