Dominant Driving Operations in Curve Sections Differentiating Skilled and Unskilled Drivers

摘要

Our objective is to develop a new driving assist system that can help low-skilled drivers improve their driving skill. In this paper, we describe a statistical method we have developed to extract distinctions between high- and low-skilled drivers. There are three key contributions. The first is the introduction of wavelet transform to analyze the frequency character of driver operations. The second is a feature extraction technology based on AdaBoost, which selects a small number of critical operation features between high- and low-skilled drivers. The third is a simple definition for high- and low-skilled drivers. We performed a series of experiments using a driving simulator on a specially designed course including several curves and then used the proposed method to extract driving operation features showing the difference between the two groups.