Detection of Driver Fatigue Caused by Sleep Deprivation

Loading...
Thumbnail Image
Authors
Yang, Ji Hyun
Mao, Zhi-Hong
Tijerina, Louis
Pilutti, Tom
Coughlin, Joseph F.
Feron, Eric
Subjects
Bayesian networks (BNs)
camouflage
drowsy driving
sleep deprivation
stimulus-response tasks
tracking tasks
Advisors
Date of Issue
2009-07
Date
Publisher
Language
Abstract
This paper aims to provide reliable indications of driver drowsiness based on the characteristics of driver–vehicle interaction. A test bed was built under a simulated driving environment, and a total of 12 subjects participated in two experiment sessions requiring different levels of sleep (partial sleepdeprivation versus no sleep-deprivation) before the experiment. The performance of the subjects was analyzed in a series of stimulus-response and routine driving tasks, which revealed the performance differences of drivers under different sleepdeprivation levels. The experiments further demonstrated that sleep deprivation had greater effect on rule-based than on skillbased cognitive functions: when drivers were sleep-deprived, their performance of responding to unexpected disturbances degraded, while they were robust enough to continue the routine driving tasks such as lane tracking, vehicle following, and lane changing. In addition, we presented both qualitative and quantitative guidelines for designing drowsy-driver detection systems in a probabilistic framework based on the paradigm of Bayesian networks. Temporal aspects of drowsiness and individual differences of subjects were addressed in the framework.
Type
Article
Description
The article of record as published may be located at http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TSMCA.2009.2018634
Series/Report No
Department
Organization
Identifiers
NPS Report Number
Sponsors
Funder
Format
Citation
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part A: Systems and Humans, Vol. 39, No. 4, July 2009.
Distribution Statement
Rights
This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.
Collections