Data-driven Steering Torque Behaviour Modelling with Hidden Markov Models

07/05/2022
by   Robert van Wijk, et al.
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Modern Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) are limited in their ability to consider the drivers intention, resulting in unnatural guidance and low customer acceptance. In this research, we focus on a novel data-driven approach to predict driver steering torque. In particular, driver behavior is modeled by learning the parameters of a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) and estimation is performed with Gaussian Mixture Regression (GMR). An extensive parameter selection framework enables us to objectively select the model hyper-parameters and prevents overfitting. The final model behavior is optimized with a cost function balancing between accuracy and smoothness. Naturalistic driving data covering seven participants is obtained using a static driving simulator at Toyota Motor Europe for the training, evaluation, and testing of the proposed model. The results demonstrate that our approach achieved a 92 accuracy with a 37 to a baseline. In addition, our model captures the complex and nonlinear human behavior and inter-driver variability from novice to expert drivers, showing an interesting potential to become a steering performance predictor in future user-oriented ADAS.

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