A deceleration control method of automobile for collision avoidance based on driver's perceptual risk

Abstract

To reduce rear-end crash of automobiles, it is important to judge necessity of deceleration assistance as earlier as possible and initiate the assistance naturally. On the other hand, we have derived a mathematical model of driver's perceptual risk of proximity in car following situation and successfully derived driver deceleration model to describe deceleration patterns and brake initiation timing of expert driver. In this research, an automatic braking system for collision avoidance will be proposed based on the formulated brake profile model and brake initiation model of expert driver to realize smooth, secure brake assistance naturally. It will be shown that the proposed control method can generate smooth profile for various conditions. In addition, experimental results using a driving simulator will show validity of the proposed system based on subjective evaluation.