Eriksson Alexander, de Winter Joost, Stanton Neville A
Transportation Research Group, Faculty of Engineering and Environment, University of Southampton, Boldrewood Campus, Southampton SO16 7QF, UK.
The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, Box 8072, SE-402 78 Göteborg, Sweden.
MethodsX. 2018 Aug 15;5:1073-1088. doi: 10.1016/j.mex.2018.08.003. eCollection 2018.
Driving simulators have been used since the beginning of the 1930s to assist researchers in assessing driver behaviour without putting the driver in harm's way. The current manuscript describes the implementation of a toolbox for automated driving research on the widely used STISIM platform. The toolbox presented in this manuscript allows researchers to conduct flexible research into automated driving, enabling independent use of longitudinal control, and a combination of longitudinal and lateral control, and is available as an open source download through GitHub. The toolbox allows the driver to adjust parameters such as set speed (in 5 kph increments) and time-headway (in steps of 1, 1.5, and 2 s) as well as automation mode dynamically, while logging additional variabless that STISIM does not provide out-of-the-box (time-headway, time to collision). Moreover, the toolbox presented in this manuscript has gone through validation trials showing accurate speed, time-headway, and lane tracking, as well as transitions of control between manual and automated driving. •A toolbox was developed for STISIM driving simulators.•The toolbox allows for automated driving.•Functionality includes tracking of speed, headway, and lane.
自20世纪30年代初以来，驾驶模拟器就被用于协助研究人员评估驾驶员行为，而不会让驾驶员处于危险之中。当前的手稿描述了在广泛使用的STISIM平台上用于自动驾驶研究的工具箱的实现。本手稿中介绍的工具箱使研究人员能够对自动驾驶进行灵活研究，实现纵向控制的独立使用以及纵向和横向控制的结合，并且可以通过GitHub作为开源下载获取。该工具箱允许驾驶员动态调整诸如设定速度（以5公里/小时为增量）和车头时距（以1秒、1.5秒和2秒为步长）以及自动化模式等参数，同时记录STISIM未直接提供的其他变量（车头时距、碰撞时间）。此外，本手稿中介绍的工具箱已经通过了验证试验，显示出精确的速度、车头时距和车道跟踪，以及手动驾驶和自动驾驶之间的控制转换。
•为STISIM驾驶模拟器开发了一个工具箱。
•该工具箱支持自动驾驶。
•功能包括速度、车头时距和车道跟踪。
