This paper deals with a study on the intelligent steering assistance system, which assists the driver's steering control both in lane-change and lane-following tasks. With the proposed system, the driver only has to perform single-loop feedback control of the lateral position, which makes a response of a single integral to steering input. In addition, if the control task recognition system finds that the driver is performing a lane-following task, the proposed system assists the driver's steering control by providing him or her with artificial steering torque produced by lane-following control system through the steering wheel. The computer simulations using data obtained from the proving-ground tests are conducted to prove the usefulness of proposed recognition systems of driver's intention. The effectiveness of the proposed system is verified by the tests on a fixed-base simulator.
Samenvatting