2204 Evaluation of Haptic Instruction for Lane Change Assistance

Abstract

Haptic guidance control is useful as a driver assistant system since it can guide the drivers by providing steering torque without imposing much stress on the vision of the drivers. This paper proposes to apply haptic steering to the lane change assistance, where the assistant torque instructs the drivers to choose the target course intuitively. A driving simulator experiment was carried out to evaluate responses of the drivers to the different kinds of assistant steering torques. The experimental results indicate amplitude of the assist torque has much effect on the performance to instruct the lane change.