Driving a car is a complex task that requires the driver to maintain attention for long periods of time. Either a lack of attention or a performance decrement may have severe consequences, especially if the driver has to react promptly to an unexpecte...
Driving a car is a complex task that requires the driver to maintain attention for long periods of time. Either a lack of attention or a performance decrement may have severe consequences, especially if the driver has to react promptly to an unexpected event. The most recent report of traffic accident shows that more than half of the victims of the road could not be saved by the the one consideration of passive protection taking on the vehicles, of Where the interest of our research on the driver's state through different aspects : physiological, mechanical, behavioural, dynamic etc. A real-time detection system is needed that must be predictive, in order to warn the driver that his status has changed before any fault occurs.
Fatigue and hypovigilance at the wheel are major causes of car accidents Hypovigilance is a physiological state that can be mesured on physiological signals such as Electro-encephalogram (EEG) or Electro-oculogram (EOG). Despite numerouse studies carried out in this field, no constant correlation has been found so far between physiological signs of hypovigilance and changes in the driving activity.
Our pratical ambition in this domain is the realization of real-time detector of hypovigilance of drivers. This realization is still in a stage of seeks some best indicators, woule certainly make call to data processing engineering, to automatic, to image/signal treatement during and after the phase of validation.
A global approach of the vigilance of the drivers would be primordial in the next years.