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Developing an Unreal Engine 4-Based Vehicle Driving Simulator Applicable in Driver Behavior Analysis-A Technical Perspective

MICHALÍK, D.; JIRGL, M.; ARM, J.; FIEDLER, P.

Original Title

Developing an Unreal Engine 4-Based Vehicle Driving Simulator Applicable in Driver Behavior Analysis-A Technical Perspective

English Title

Developing an Unreal Engine 4-Based Vehicle Driving Simulator Applicable in Driver Behavior Analysis-A Technical Perspective

Type

WoS Article

Original Abstract

Vehicle safety remains a topic of major interest, and diverse assistance systems are implemented that focus primarily on analyzing the immediate vicinity of the car and the driver's control inputs. In this paper, by contrast, we emphasize understanding the driver's control performance via obtaining valuable data and relevant characteristics. To acquire the data, we employed an in-house-designed, laboratory-built vehicle driving simulator. This simulator exploits the Unreal Engine 4 framework to deliver a high level of realism. The fact that the actual designing and associated processes were materialized through our own efforts has brought advantages such as simplified data acquisition, possibility of creating custom scenarios, and modification of the virtual elements according to our specific needs. We also developed an application to analyze the measured data from the perspective of control theory, establishing a set of parameters that provided the basis for an early version of a driver performance index indicator.

English abstract

Vehicle safety remains a topic of major interest, and diverse assistance systems are implemented that focus primarily on analyzing the immediate vicinity of the car and the driver's control inputs. In this paper, by contrast, we emphasize understanding the driver's control performance via obtaining valuable data and relevant characteristics. To acquire the data, we employed an in-house-designed, laboratory-built vehicle driving simulator. This simulator exploits the Unreal Engine 4 framework to deliver a high level of realism. The fact that the actual designing and associated processes were materialized through our own efforts has brought advantages such as simplified data acquisition, possibility of creating custom scenarios, and modification of the virtual elements according to our specific needs. We also developed an application to analyze the measured data from the perspective of control theory, establishing a set of parameters that provided the basis for an early version of a driver performance index indicator.

Keywords

vehicle driving simulator; driver analysis; driver performance; Unreal Engine 4; man-machine systems

Key words in English

vehicle driving simulator; driver analysis; driver performance; Unreal Engine 4; man-machine systems

Authors

MICHALÍK, D.; JIRGL, M.; ARM, J.; FIEDLER, P.

RIV year

2022

Released

01.04.2021

Publisher

MDPI

Location

BASEL

ISBN

2313-576X

Periodical

Safety

Volume

7

Number

2

State

Swiss Confederation

Pages from

1

Pages to

17

Pages count

17

URL

https://www.mdpi.com/2313-576X/7/2/25

Full text in the Digital Library

http://hdl.handle.net/11012/200500

BibTex

@article{BUT171049,
  author="David {Michalík} and Miroslav {Jirgl} and Jakub {Arm} and Petr {Fiedler}",
  title="Developing an Unreal Engine 4-Based Vehicle Driving Simulator Applicable in Driver Behavior Analysis-A Technical Perspective",
  journal="Safety",
  year="2021",
  volume="7",
  number="2",
  pages="1--17",
  doi="10.3390/safety7020025",
  url="https://www.mdpi.com/2313-576X/7/2/25"
}

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