Modeling the inattention of a human driving a car

DANILO CHAVEZ; EMANUEL SLAWIÑSKI; VICENTE MUT

Valenciennes, Francia

Simposio; 11th IFAC Symposium on Analysis, Design and Evaluation of Human-Machine Systems; 2010

Universidad de Valenciennes, Francia e IFAC

This paper proposes a method to measure the effects of the driver’s visual inattention. In addition, the driver’s inattention is associated with a time delay, the same that is defined such that it produces a similar effect on the car motion. This interpretation will allow the use of classic tools present in the control theory for time delayed systems in the case of a driver, who is maneuvering a car to follow a path taking into account its possible inattention. Experimental results using a driving simulator are presented with the on-line measure of the inattention level.