Darya Popiv
Darya Popiv did her Master's thesis under supervision of Prof. Bubb at the Institute of Ergonomics at TU München. She graduated from CSE/BGCE in December, 2006, and will go on as PhD student at the chair of Prof. Bubb.
Master's Thesis:
Integration of a Component Based Driving Simulator and Design of
Experiments on Multimodal Driver Assistance
Fully automated driving is a future goal of research currently performed in automotive industry. The present thesis dealt with driving support systems on different levels of automation. Fully integrated multimodal approaches for such driving systems aim at providing intuitive means for minimally distractive assistance for car drivers. In this thesis, the description of design and implementation of three concepts of driving support systems in the driving simulator was presented.
The driving support systems are based on three concepts. Every concept represents assistance on different level of driving automation. A non-automated concept is based on the principle of driving activity without an automation support provided to the driver. A semi-automation support system is represented by the concept of Active Cruise Control, in which driver performs a role of a system's supervisor and delegates part of the driving tasks to the system. The third concept is the concept of Active Gas Pedal. In terms of this concept, the driver is offered support on behalf of the driving system, but still is required to perform tasks of driving personally. Also lateral and longitudinal visual assistance is incorporated into the implementation of the three described concepts. To test the mentioned concepts, a fixed-base driving simulator was set up, the architecture of which is explained in this thesis as well.
Driving simulator at the Institute of Ergonomics, TU München.
The set-up of the fixed-base driving simulator, its hardware components, corresponding interfacing software applications, and their networking are described. The software system architecture in the driving simulator is explained, and development process of the driving support systems is introduced. Also, required implementation information is provided for further extensions of the software system. Finally the experimental design for the user study is described, such that the experiment only needs to be executed.
