Driving Characteristic Based on Measurement of Cortical Brain Activity Using Driving Simulator

Abstract

Driving characteristic is very important for improving the highway traffic safety and developing driving assistant systems. In this paper, we focused on drivers' driving characteristic during curve driving. We performed a series of experiments using a driving simulator on a special designed course including several left and right curves. Specially, in order to make clear the relation between the driving operations and the cortical brain activity corresponding to road geometry, the cortical brain activity was also measured by a functional near-infrared spectroscopy （fNIRS）. We analyzed the characteristic differences of driving operations about left/right curves. Furthermore, accordantly difference of activation of brain regions between left/right curves was also extracted independently.