Benefits of a common logging and analysis platform for Experimental and Naturalistic/Field Operational Test driving studies - An overview of methodology and problems common between different types of driving studies

摘要

Using instrumented vehicles as a tool in understanding the driver behaviour under experimental conditions has been common practice for a long time. Naturalistic driving studies (NDS) and Field Operational Tests (FOT) on the other hand, has recently come more in focus for the evaluation and understanding of driver behaviour and driver support and safety systems in normal driving conditions. In order to merge NDS/FOT with Experimental studies and simplify overlapping experimental design, a common Data Acquisition System (DAS) and corresponding analysis tools has been developed. This gives benefits such as a common data format, flexible sensor integration, as well as common visualisation and analysis tools. These benefits and some methodology issues of the common platform are described, and examples of storage optimization and visualization tools are given.