Driver Modelling

River Publishers eBooks, pp. 45–64

Abstract

Traffic simulations become more and more relevant for the development of Advanced Driver Assistant Systems (ADAS) and algorithms for automated driving. They are used to evaluate the functions concerning important impact factors like safety, efficiency, mobility or costs. Therefore, the system is tested and evaluated as a component of the virtual vehicle in simulations. The factors manageability and acceptance of the users regarding the tested system are prospected and evaluated in driving simulators, where the real driver can be part of the virtual environment. Both, in traffic simulations and in simulators, the realistic behaviour of the surrounding virtual road users to the equipped vehicle is an important requirement for a suitable evaluation of the system because this behaviour influences the reaction of ADAS and driver significantly. Moreover, it is necessary, that the behaviour of the traffic can be adjusted systematically in order to generate defined traffic situations of relevant constellations and in different nuances of criticality. As in real traffic, small changes in the initial conditions can produce a large difference in the result. This phenomenon can only be reproduced in a simulation if the driving behaviour patterns reflect the human driver behaviour closely.

Authors 1

1. Lutz Eckstein Aachen Institute for Automotive Engineering

   RWTH Aachen University

   Affiliation as printed

   Institute for Automotive Engineering , RWTH Aachen University , Steinbachstraße 7 , 52074 Aachen , Germany

   Institute for Automotive Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Steinbachstraße 7, 52074 Aachen, Germany