The SHERPA driving simulator as a technical platform for driver’s state monitoring studies
Résumé
Several studies were conducted at the laboratory some years ago about drowsiness detection and mental workload assessment in the context of car driving. These studies were made in a driving simulator and involved a posteriori data analyses, with the aim to identify symptoms of potentially dangerous situations/states. More recently, in the continuity of these works, developments have been made in the SHERPA simulator that equips the laboratory to implement similar analyses but in real time, while driving. A demonstrator has been developed, called D2M for “Driver and Driving Monitoring”, in the form of a warning system combining a Lane Departure Warning, a Headway Collision Warning, a distraction warning and drowsiness warning. Rather than a prototype, this system is intended as a technical platform allowing studies on several issues: sensors and data collection, data analysis and HMI to inform the driver about his own state