Virtual Driver Setup for Driver Health Monitoring

Testing of the driver monitoring active safety feature involves hundreds of hours of dedicated drives and monitoring human fatigue during the course. In an agile software development, repeated tests are needed to ensure product maturity. This becomes a financially expensive and time exhaustive exercise in the overall development cycle of the product. A Virtual Driver Setup is proposed to be used in testing out the driver monitoring features. The Setup includes an ADAS system hooked up to driver monitoring sensors, a Virtual Driver is recorded using a camera setup. A long drive is simulated on a HiL interface and human fatigue is introduced into the Virtual Driver making use of realistic statistical models developed by globally recognized health organizations. The exhaustive driver use case scenarios can be tested on this platform in an automated and repeatable methodology in deriving feature maturity and regulation compliance.