Study on Human-Machine Shared Driving Characteristics of Autonomous Driving Intelligence System in Obstacle Avoidance Maneuver

Abstract

This paper investigates the shared driving characteristics of a steering assistance system for obstacle avoidance maneuver as one of the functionalities of autonomous driving intelligence. It is important to study how such autonomous control function should be designed in order to obtain good driver acceptance when both human and the system act in parallel as a shared control task. This paper evaluates the shared driving characteristics when the degree of the steering assistance function is set at different levels. Using the driving simulator, elderly drivers are employed in the experiment. The obstacle avoidance performance and the handling quality of the vehicle are discussed.