• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2013

Recently, the automotive technology has developed with electronics and information technology as convergence technology while vehicles had been regarded as machines. Moreover, vehicles are becoming more intelligent and safer devices, assembly of advanced technologies by customers' demand. Even though all of installations of vehicle have attracted as diverting devices, it cause drivers' mistakes like delay of response on traffic condition. Here, we proposed the Field Operational Test (FOT) environment which could be used as driving and road conditions collector(Vehicle motion, Traffic condition, Driver input, Driver state, etc.) for researches about Driver Friendly Intelligent System(SCC, LDWS, etc.), Human Vehicle Interface(Driving Workload, etc.) and Economic Drive Model. Furthermore driving patten and fuel consumption patten of drivers were analyzed by measured data and direction of future research was suggested.

• International Journal of Automotive Technology
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.603-608
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• 2006

As an important and relatively easy to implement technology for realizing Intelligent Transportation Systems(ITS), Adaptive Cruise Control(ACC) automatically adjusts vehicle speed and distance to a preceding vehicle, thus enhancing driver comfort and safety. One of the key issues associated with ACC development is usability and user acceptance. Control parameters in ACC should be optimized in such a way that the system does not conflict with driving behavior of the driver and further that the driver feels comfortable with ACC. A driving simulator is a comprehensive research tool that can be applied to various human factor studies and vehicle system development in a safe and controlled environment. This study investigated driving behavior with ACC for drivers with different driving styles using the driving simulator. The ACC simulation system was implemented on the simulator and its performance was evaluated first. The Driving Style Questionnaire(DSQ) was used to classify the driving styles of the drivers in the simulator experiment. The experiment results show that, when driving with ACC, preferred headway-time was 1.5 seconds regardless of the driving styles, implying consistency in driving speed and safe distance. However, the lane keeping ability reduced, showing the larger deviation in vehicle lateral position and larger head and eye movement. It is suggested that integration of ACC and lateral control can enhance driver safety and comfort even further.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.209-219
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• 1997

A fuzzy driver model based on a preview-predictor and yaw rate is developed. The model is used to investigate the handling performance of two wheel steering system(2WS) and four wheel steering system(4WS) vehicles. The two degree-of- freedom model which has yaw and lateral motion predicts the path of the vehicles. Based upon the yaw rate and lateral deviations, the fuzzy engine describes the human driver's complicated control behavior which is adjusted for the driving environment. Both typical single lane change maneuver and double lane change maneuver are adopted to demonstrate the feasibility of fuzzy driver model.

• 디지털콘텐츠학회 논문지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.121-127
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• 2009

자동차 ECU(Electronic Control Unit)는 날이 갈수록 더욱 복잡해지고 많은 기능을 요구하고 있다. 대표적으로 power windows switch, LCM(Light Control Module), mirror control system, seat memory등 운전자 편의 시스템이 개발되어 양산 중에 있다. 또한 현재 업계에서 많은 연구개발이 진행되고 있는 운전자 편의를 위한 DIS(Driver Information System)도 있다. 하지만 이러한 시스템을 운전 중 조작하게 되면 많은 위험이 따른다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이러한 자동차 편의장치를 음성으로 조작 가능한 음성인식 시스템을 구현하였으며 자동차 잡음환경에서 인식률 향상을 위한 전처리 필터를 적용하여 양호한 인식결과 얻었다.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2008

This paper presents electromagnetic interference(EMI) suppression method applied on the direct current(DC) motor driver for power tail gate control. EMI noise is generated by the fast switching of power devices connected to electric loads. It has become a matter of concern because of the vast increase in the number and sophistication of electronic system in automotive environment. The proposed EMI reduction method is based on the principle of reducing the transient speed of power devices by changing the parameters of the driver circuit related to the power MOSFET. In this paper, power losses were calculated by loss equations and thermal simulation was used to evaluate the effect on printed circuit board. Based on these results, the DC motor driver was fabricated and tested. The proposed method can help to design a DC motor driver which allows it to obtain an acceptable compromise between power losses and EMI.

• 대한산업공학회지
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.271-282
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• 2003

Automotive occupant packaging has been a part of main ergonomics interests, especially, in terms of driver's posture. Previous research on driver's posture has mainly focused on the initial optimal posture for driving sedans. However, customer preferences on cars are shifting from sedans to RV and automobile manufacturing companies seek to understand temporal changes in drivers' posture according to driving environment. So the main aim of this study was to develop a driver's posture measurement system during driving and investigate casual changes due to duration, car type, traffic flow. Four male drivers participated in the experiments during one week. It was shown that considerable changes in their postures were caused with respect to driving environment, which implies that not only static optimal postures but their dynamic changes should be taken into consideration for proper design and evaluation of interior packaging. The research is expected to help packaging designers understand human drivers so as to improve their comfort.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제17권9호
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• pp.235-244
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• 2016

자동차의 새로운 운전편의장치들이 급속히 적용됨으로서 관련된 자동차용 부호 개발의 필요성이 증가되고 있다. 좋은 자동차용 부호는 인간공학적인 측면에서 검출성, 식별성, 학습용이성, 반응성, 인식성, 이해성 등의 특성을 잘 갖추어 궁극적으로 그 자체가 잘 설명되면서 올바른 상황에서 잘 사용되어야한다. 이 연구에서는 자동차용 부호를 개발하거나 평가하고자 할 때 고려되는 이해성, 인지성, 적절성 등으로 구성된 다중평가를 포함하는 자동차용 부호의 개발절차 및 평가방법을 제시하였다. 또한 이를 적용하여 오늘날 비교적 새로운 추가 기능인 차선이탈경보시스템(LDWS), 정속주행시스템(CCS), 충돌경보시스템(CWS) 등의 주행편의장치를 중심으로 28가지 부호를 평가하였다. 평가의 결과, 대부분의 주행편의장치의 부호는 2개 회사의 자동차 보다 KS R ISO 2575의 부호가 이해성, 인지성, 적절성이 높았다. 그 외 선루프, 카메라 등의 부호는 KS R ISO 2575의 부호가 낮았고, 그리고 표준으로 제시되고 있는 않은 2개 회사의 자동차에서 사용되고 있는 지능형안전장치 등의 최신 기능의 부호는 이 세 가지 평가점수가 매우 낮아 표준의 개발이 필요한 것으로 나타났다. 이 연구의 자동차용 부호에 대한 인간공학적 측면에서의 다중평가의 방법은 수행도 예측 가능한 이론적 연구가 부족한 상황에서 관련 부호의 개발 및 평가에 대한 유효한 방법론을 제공할 것이다.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.923-929
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• 2001

Steering system is most important for vehicle in safety and driving feel. However, testing using real car to improve steering feel is often difficult in aspect to repeatability, safety and money. Repeatability in testing steering system is very important because steering feel for driver is variable according to the environment condition. And steering testing of vehicle is so dangerous that driver may not concentrate in testing. In this paper, the steering system simulator using front part of steering and suspension system was developed. We can test the electric power steering system for the light weight vehicle using this simulator cheap, safely and repeatably.

• International Journal of Automotive Technology
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.25-34
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• 2006

For decades, simulation technique has been well validated in areas such as computer and communication systems. Recently, the technique has been much used in the area of transportation and traffic forecasting. Several methods have been proposed for investigating complex traffic flows. However, the dynamics of vehicles and diversities of driver characteristics have never been considered sufficiently in these methods, although they are considered important factors in traffic flow analysis. In this paper, we propose a traffic simulation tool called Multi-Agent for Traffic Simulation with Vehicle Dynamics Model (MATDYMO). Road transport consultants, traffic engineers and urban traffic control center managers are expected to use MATDYMO to efficiently simulate traffic flow. MATDYMO has four sub systems: the road management system, the vehicle motion control system, the driver management system, and the integration control system. The road management system simulates traffic flow for various traffic environments (e.g., multi-lane roads, nodes, virtual lanes, and signals); the vehicle motion control system constructs the vehicle agent by using various vehicle dynamic models; the driver management system constructs the driver agent capable of having different driving styles; and lastly, the integrated control system regulates the MATDYMO as a whole and observes the agents running in the system. The vehicle motion control system and driver management system are described in the companion paper. An interrupted and uninterrupted flow model were simulated, and the simulation results were verified by comparing them with the results from a commercial software, TRANSYT-7F. The simulation result of the uninterrupted flow model showed that the driver agent displayed human-like behavior ranging from slow and careful driving to fast and aggressive driving. The simulation of the interrupted flow model was implemented as two cases. The first case analyzed traffic flow as the traffic signals changed at different intervals and as the turning traffic volume changed. Second case analyzed the traffic flow as the traffic signals changed at different intervals and as the road length changed. The simulation results of the interrupted flow model showed that the close relationship between traffic state change and traffic signal interval.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.125-135
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• 2004

The validity of simulation has been well-established for decades in areas such as computer and communication system. Recently, the technique has become entrenched in specific areas such as transportation and traffic forecasting. Several methods have been proposed for investigating complex traffic flows. However, the dynamics of vehicles and their driver's characteristics, even though it is known that they are important factors for any traffic flow analysis, have never been considered sufficiently. In this paper, the traffic simulation using a multi-agent approach with considering vehicle dynamics is proposed. The multi-agent system is constructed with the traffic environment and the agents of vehicle and driver. The traffic environment consists of multi-lane roads, nodes, virtual lanes, and signals. To ensure the fast calculation, the agents are performed on the based of the rules to regulate their behaviors. The communication frameworks are proposed for the agents to share the information of vehicles' velocity and position. The model of a driver agent which controls a vehicle agent is described in the companion paper. The vehicle model contains the nonlinear subcomponents of engine, torque converter, automatic transmission, and wheels. The simulation has proceeded for an interrupted and uninterrupted flow model. The result has shown that the driver agent performs human-like behavior ranging from slow and careful to fast and aggressive driving behavior, and that the change of the traffic state is closely related with the distance and the signal delay between intersections. The system developed shows the effectiveness and the practical usefulness of the traffic simulation.