Driver Assistance and Autonomous Driving features are becoming nearly ubiquitous in new vehicles. The intent of the Driver Assistant features is to assist the driver in making safer decisions. The intent of Autonomous Driving features is to execute vehicle maneuvers, without human intervention, in a safe manner. The overall goal of Driver Assistance and Autonomous Driving features is to reduce accidents, injuries, and deaths with a comforting driving experience. However, different drivers can react differently to advanced automated driving technology. It is therefore important to consider and improve the adaptability of these advances based on driver behavior.
In this thesis, a human-centric approach is adopted in order to provide an enriching driving experience. The thesis investigates the natural behavior of drivers when changing lanes in terms of preferences of vehicle kinematics parameters using a real-world driving dataset collected as part of the Second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP2). The SHRP2 Naturalistic Driving Study (NDS) set is mined for lane change events. This work develops a way to detect reliable lane changing instances from a huge NDS dataset with more than 5,400,000 data files. The lane changing instances are distinguished from noisy and erroneous data by using machine vision lane tracking system variables such as left lane marker probability and right lane marker probability. We have shown that detected lane changing instances can be validated using only vehicle kinematics data.
Kinematic vehicle parameters such as vehicle speed, lateral displacement, lateral acceleration, steering wheel angle, and lane change duration are then extracted and examined from time series data to characterize these lane-changing instances for a given driver. We have shown how these vehicle kinematic parameters change and exhibit patterns during lane change maneuvers for a specific driver. The thesis shows the limitations of analyzing vehicle kinematic parameters separately and develops a novel metric, Lane Change Dynamic Score(LCDS) that shows the collective effect of these vehicle kinematic parameters. LCDS is used to classify each lane change and thereby different driving styles. / Master of Science / The current tendency of car manufacturers is to create vehicles that will offer the user the most comfortable ride possible. The user experience is given a lot of attention to ensure it is up to par. With technological advancements, we are moving closer to an era in which automobiles perform many functions autonomously. However, different drivers may react differently to highly automated driving technologies. Therefore, adapting to different driving styles is critical to increasing the acceptance of autonomous vehicle features. In this work, we examine one of the stressful maneuvers of lane changes. The analysis of various drivers' lane-changing behaviors and the value of personalization are the main subjects of this study based on actual driving scenarios. To achieve this, we have provided an algorithm to identify occurrences of lane-changing from real driving trip data files. Following that, we investigated parameters such as lane change duration, vehicle speed, displacement, acceleration, and steering wheel angle when changing lanes. We have demonstrated the patterns and changes in these vehicle kinematic characteristics that occur when a particular driver performs lane change operations. The thesis shows the limitations of analyzing vehicle kinematic parameters separately and develops a novel metric, Lane Change Dynamic Score(LCDS) that shows the collective effect of these vehicle kinematic parameters. LCDS is used to classify each lane change and thereby different driving styles.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/113062 |
| Date | 05 January 2023 |
| Creators | Lakhkar, Radhika Anandrao |
| Contributors | Electrical and Computer Engineering, Talty, Timothy Joseph, Sarkar, Abhijit, Abbott, A. Lynn, Jones, Creed F. III |
| Publisher | Virginia Tech |
| Source Sets | Virginia Tech Theses and Dissertation |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | ETD, application/pdf |
| Rights | In Copyright, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
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