A visual display enhancing comfort by counteracting airsickness

A simulator study has been conducted demonstrating a positive effect on airsickness by utilizing a 3D artificial Earth-fixed visual pattern. Participants were exposed to the same turbulent physical aircraft motion in a simulator three times in a row, each time using a different visual cue. In one condition only the interior of the simulator...

Effect of simulator motion cuing on steering control performance: Driving simulator study

The goal of the present study was to explore how simulator motion cuing affects the driver's control performance of a car. Steering behavior was used as a measure of control performance. The experimental task was a slalom maneuver in which the velocity of the car was limited to 70 km/h. Subjective and objective variables were measured. The paper...

Socio-economic variability of safespot cooperative safety systems

This paper describes the results of a socio-economic assessment of two cooperative safety systems. One of the systems is based on V2V communication, the other one is based on V2I communication. Both systems are composed of a bundle of applications which have been designed to provide road safety information to the driver. An integrated assessment...

Driver behavior analysis during ACC activation and deactivation in a real traffic environment

For the development of a traffic-simulation model to estimate the effect of adaptive cruise control (ACC) systems on traffic safety, throughput, and environment, data of a field operational test (FOT) were analyzed, in which vehicles were equipped with ACC and lane-departure warning (LDW) systems. The objective of this paper is to use this FOT...

Evaluation of different modalities for the intelligent cooperative interaction safety system (IRIS) and speed limit system

This paper describes the Human-Machine-Interface (HMI) design for two cooperative systems the Intelligent Cooperative Intersection Safety System (IRIS) and Speed Limit that were developed in the EU-project SAFESPOT. The tactile and haptic warnings of the cooperative systems were compared to the acoustic warnings both combined with a visual icon....

Driving simulator study to support design of intersection safety application

The aim of the European research project SAFESPOT is to prevent road accidents by developing a Safety Margin Assistant that extends the drivers´ awareness in space and time. One application of the Safety Margin Assistant is the Intelligent coopeRative Intersection Safety system (IRIS). IRIS will identify safety critical situations at...

Motion feedback in advanced driving manoeuvres

During advanced driving manoeuvres, drivers can be hypothesized to use all the available cues to optimize their performance. Fixed-base simulators are commonly used for training of these advanced driving manoeuvres, despite the fact that motion cues are not present. In this experiment we hypothesize that motion feedback improves driver...

Effect of simulator motion space on realism in the Desdemona simulator

The goal of this study was to assess the effect of an increasing motion space on the fidelity of driving simulation in the Desdemona research simulator. The experimental task was a standardized slalom maneuver where the car velocity was limited to 70 km/h. Subjective measures, which included eight statements on realism and task performance were...

Virtual aid - driving simulator study for intelligent intersection safety

A European project using volunteer drivers and placing them in different driving scenarios in a simulated environment is making pioneering efforts to improve safety for all road users at intersections

HMI Considerations for the Dutch CVIS – SAFESPOT Test Site

This paper describes the Human-Machine-Interface (HMI) design approach for the integration of several cooperative systems that were developed in the projects CVIS and SAFESPOT. In this design approach, several important issues for integrated HMI were accounted for: the prioritization of the information for the highest safety relevance, the...

Professional Pilot Transumo IV - Study on a Safest-route Functionality with Financial Incentive for Professional Drivers

The main objective of the Transumo project Intelligent Vehicles was to use in-vehicle telematics as a breakthrough technology to improve the quality of travel and sustainable road traffic and to appreciate the potential of in-car telematics in terms of safety, throughput, reliability and environment. The subproject "Professional Pilot" is...

Definitie van een pilotproef met AKS: Tussenrapport fase 2 periode 1 maart tot 3 april

Dit rapport is het tweede uit een serie van drie. Nummer 3 is het eindrapport, terwijl nummer 1 een (technisch) venster schetste. Dit rapport valt daar tussenin. Het werk krijgt meer gestalte en richting, vragen worden beantwoord…..maar er komen ook nieuwe vragen op. Zo moet dit rapport ook gelezen worden. De opzet van een pilotproef met...

Desdemona, an alternative moving base design for driving simulation

Desdemona is a moving-base research-simulator that was designed with a special focus on spatial disorientation demonstrations, flight simulation, and driving simulation. The cabin is equipped with a car mock-up that contains force-feedback on pedals and steering wheel, and out-the-window visuals. The cabin is mounted in a fully gimbaled system...

Traffic safety effects of navigation systems

Abstract— To investigate effects of navigation systems on traffic safety, a literature search, a damages database analysis, a user survey and an instrumented car study were conducted. This paper presents the instrumented car study to investigate the effects of a navigation system on driving behavior and on workload. Participants drove to an...

Driving simulator assessment for human factors research

In the design and development of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), the end user should be taken into account. There are many methods to investigate the human factor. The most suitable methods involve a trade-off between similarity to the real world on the one hand, and flexibility and interpretability of experiments on the other....

Present status of the Desdemona simulator

Positie-actuator op basis van oppervlakte-akoestische golven