Driving is a very complex activity which requires all the
attention of the driver. Nowadays, the human factor is related in
90% of the accidents and the distraction is one of the most
considerable factors of influence, specially the somnolence. The
objective of this project is to create a confident somnolence
detector.
In order to obtain essential data from the drivers while they
fall asleep to calibrate the algorithm, we needed to create a
system which allows the driver to handle the car, but detects when
the conduction is not correct and takes control to keep safe the
driver and the car. It was extremely important that the system must
be autonomous, and the driver must be alone in the car, so as not
to distort the experiment.
As a result, we will obtain a semi-autonomous non-intrusive
system which makes impossible to have an accident in our platform
where a track is circumscribed. It opens the doors of the
experimentation with drowsy drivers, when there are possibilities
of loss of control of the vehicle. It can be used also to increase
the safety in test track installations like ours or some control
applications out of automobile industries, where safety is
fundamental.