Design of an Instrumented Vehicle Test Bed for Developing a Human Centered Driver Support System

Abstract

In this paper we introduce a new type of intelligent vehicle test-bed that is enabling new research in the field. This new test-bed is designed to capture not just a portion of the vehicle surround, but rather the entire vehicle surround as well as the vehicle interior and vehicle state for extended periods of time. This is accomplished using multiple modalities of sensor systems so that it can form a complete context of the vehicle. This allows new research to be performed in intelligent vehicle algorithm development and allows studies in driver behavior to be performed. We also show results from some of the research being performed using this test-bed