Session: AVT-03-01 Advances in Methods for Ground Vehicle Systems Design

Paper Number: 89909

89909 - A Driving Simulator for UN157 Homologation Activities 

UN157 Regulation is devoted to the homologation of SAE Level 3 automated vehicles. The research and development activities related with the Regulation may require an extensive usage of driving simulators. Developing a sickness-free driving simulator is crucial for extensive tests to be performed with ordinary drivers.

The paper deals with the problem of selecting a useful technology for the quick and efficient development of automated vehicles of SAE Level 3.

The paper presents the technical features of the new driving simulator of the Politecnico di Milano (DRISMI). A number of biometric set of signals is recorded, namely, forces and moments at each single hand at the steering wheel, heart rate variability, skin resistance potential, eye movements. A matching of the objective monitoring of the driver is compared with the subjective psychological status. An initial population of 30 subjects has been investigated.

The new driving simulator has shown a good acceptance by ordinary drivers. Both objective and psychologic subjective assessment agree to state that the new driving simulator may be used to test ordinary driver behavior in a motorway scenario.This allows to propose the new technology of cable-driven driving simulators for performing the development of automated lane keeping system in view of UN 157 homologation activities.

Presenting Author: Massimiliano Gobbi Politecnico di Milano

Presenting Author Biography: Massimiliano Gobbi is full professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. He was awarded a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1994 (100/100 cum laude) from Politecnico di Milano and Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics in 1998. <br/>He was a full time visiting scholar at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of California, Vehicle Dynamics Laboratory, Berkeley in 1998. In 2002, he was appointed as associate professor at Politecnico di Milano in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. <br/>He is co-founder of the Spin-off-company SmartMechanical.<br/>More than 200 technical papers have been published in well-known, international, peer reviewed journals or presented at reputed international conferences.<br/>He is author (or co-author) of seven international patents and two books, ‘Optimal Design of Complex Mechanical <br/>Systems with Applications to Vehicle Engineering’, published by Springer Verlag and ‘Moments of Inertia and products of Inertia of a Rigid Body - Design Principles of Measurement Systems’, Society of Allied Weight Engineers (2018). He has co-authored with prof. P.Y. Papalambros a chapter of the “Road and Off-Road Vehicle System Dynamics Handbook” (title: Optimization of Ground Vehicle Systems) published in 2013 by CRC press. <br/>Areas of interest: road vehicles engineering, optimization of complex systems, advanced design, experimental mechanics, mechatronics.<br/>Prof. Gobbi had been chair of the Vehicle Design Committee (VDC) of the ASME from 2015 to 2017

Authors:

Massimiliano Gobbi Politecnico di Milano
Giampiero Mastinu Politecnico di Milano
Stefano Melzi Politecnico di Milano
Giorgio Previati Politecnico di Milano
Luca Ronconi Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Edoardo Sabbioni Politecnico di Milano