Drowsiness as one of the impaired driving behaviour is an important area of concern in ground transportation safety. It can coincide with skill-demanding situations that may lead to vehicle control loss and possibly traffic accidents. Although drowsiness effects on driving performances have been widely investigated, there are few studies that propose a description of its effect on human neuromuscular state. To address this issue, this study aims to investigate the effects of drowsiness on driver neuromuscular state via the estimation of mechanical arm admittance. Mechanical arm admittance is a car dedicated parameter that gives information about arm stiffness of driver and its corresponding response in the frequency domain. Ten participants performed an experiment on a driving simulator, where they experienced steering disturbances, which aims to estimate variations of mechanical arm admittance as well as variations of driving performances between alert and drowsy states. Moreover, variation in driving performances were assessed by the variation of steering reversal rate and standard deviation of lane position. Results indicate that drowsiness increases the gain of mechanical arm admittance for arm movements <2.5 Hz and also deteriorates car steering control, increasing the steering operations amplitude and leading to larger vehicle lateral deviations.


    Access

    Access via TIB


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    Effect of drowsiness on mechanical arm admittance and driving performances


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2018-01-12


    Size :

    7 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




    Effect of drowsiness on mechanical arm admittance and driving performances

    Joly, Antonin / Zheng, Rencheng / Kaizuka, Tsutomu et al. | Wiley | 2018

    Free access

    Drowsiness driving prevention system

    CHA CHAN YEOL | European Patent Office | 2019

    Free access

    Intelligent drowsiness driving prevention device

    European Patent Office | 2020

    Free access

    Drunk driving and drowsiness detection

    Charniya, Nadir N. / Nair, Vivek R. | IEEE | 2017


    DETECTING METHOD FOR DROWSINESS DRIVING

    LEE KWANG HUI | European Patent Office | 2020

    Free access