Next-gen HMI crucial for ADAS efficacy

Next-generation HMI (human-machine interface) technology platforms allow off-highway OEMs and system designers to support productivity tools like computer vision - including object detection, advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and semi-automatic equipment control - as well as traditional HMI features such as engine monitoring, navigation and instrumentation clusters. For example, CrossControl's CCpilot V700, V1000 and V1200 displays are equipped with a powerful quad core SoC (system on a chip) that delivers triple the graphical performance of former industrial ARM design to the construction, agriculture, mining and material-handling sectors.

More computational power enables systems to provide more advanced functionality - aka “soft functionality” - to aid the operator, but it also can increase the operator's mental stress. CrossControl invests in research into Interaction and UX design and performed two recent studies in conjunction with Mälardalen University that shed some insight into best practices for system deployment. The research was carried out through both field and laboratory studies. The field-work study of actual work situations performed by forestry and construction equipment took place in Sweden. The operator's attention and visual focus was analyzed using eye-tracking glasses. The benefit of glasses compared to, for example, display-fitted eye-trackers, is that they also capture everything the operator sees.