Analysis and Modeling of Driver's Gaze Trajectories in Curves Driving

To explore the relation between drivers' eye movements and vehicle steering performance, 25 participants were employed to drive a test vehicle on appointed tortuous routes. The drivers' visual behavior was measured while they were driving, and experiment data collected on motorway on-ramps...

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Published in:Advances in Mechanical Engineering 2014-01, Vol.6, p.129601
Main Authors: Ren, Yuan-Yuan, Li, Xian-Sheng, Zheng, Xue-Lian, Li, Zhe, Zhao, Qi-Chao, Chen, Xiao-Xia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Density
Drivers
Eye movements
Roads
Statistical analysis
Studies
Traffic flow
Trajectories
Turning
Vehicles
Visual
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Summary:To explore the relation between drivers' eye movements and vehicle steering performance, 25 participants were employed to drive a test vehicle on appointed tortuous routes. The drivers' visual behavior was measured while they were driving, and experiment data collected on motorway on-ramps and interchanges were used to analyze the drivers' visual characteristics. The distribution density of the fixation points showed that the drivers paid attention to the inner road edge when turning left and the outer road edge when turning right. Meanwhile, the heights of the gaze targets hardly changed. Therefore, a further investigation discovered that the gaze trajectory was parallel to the vehicle's driving trajectory on one-way curves. Then, six types of gaze trajectories were derived, and models for each type were established. Combining these models with the fact that gaze points are always distributed along the nearby road edge, it was deduced that the starting point of the gaze trajectory when driving on curves has a salient influence on the driver's gaze trajectory.
ISSN:1687-8132
1687-8140
1687-8140
1687-8132
DOI:10.1155/2014/129601