Acceptance and Usability of a Soft Robotic, Haptic Feedback Seat for Autonomy Level Transitions in Highly Automated Vehicles

IF 2.4 3区计算机科学 Q2 COMPUTER SCIENCE, CYBERNETICS

IEEE Transactions on Haptics Pub Date : 2024-04-25 DOI:10.1109/TOH.2024.3392473

Jan Peters;Bani Anvari;Johann Licher;Mats Wiese;Annika Raatz;Helge Arne Wurdemann

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Abstract

Fully autonomous vehicles, capable of completing entire end-to-end journeys without the interference of a human driver, will be one of the biggest transforming technologies of the next decades. As the journey towards fully autonomous vehicles progresses, there will be an increase in the number of highly automated vehicles on the roads, requiring the human driver to take back control in situations, which cannot be handled by the vehicle autonomously. These human-robot take-over requests can lead to safety risks, in particular in scenarios when the driver fails to understand the take-over request and, hence, lacks situational awareness. This paper presents the acceptance and usability assessment of a haptic feedback driver seat capable of informing the driver of a take-over request through static mechano-tactile haptic feedback. The seat is equipped with an embedded array of soft pneumatic actuators, that have been fully modelled and characterised. The evaluation process of the haptic feedback seat engaged 21 participants who experienced both auditory and haptic feedback from the seat in a number of simulation experiments within a driving simulator. The vehicular technology was assessed through well-established methods to understand the acceptance (usefulness and satisfaction) and usability of the haptic feedback driver seat.

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用于高度自动驾驶车辆自主级别转换的软机器人触觉反馈座椅的接受度和可用性。

完全自动驾驶汽车能够在没有人类驾驶员干预的情况下完成整个端到端旅程，这将是未来几十年最大的变革技术之一。随着全自动驾驶汽车进程的推进，道路上高度自动驾驶汽车的数量将不断增加，这就要求人类驾驶员在车辆无法自动处理的情况下重新控制车辆。这些人类-机器人接管请求可能会导致安全风险，尤其是在驾驶员无法理解接管请求，因而缺乏态势感知的情况下。本文介绍了对触觉反馈驾驶员座椅的接受度和可用性评估，该座椅能够通过静态机械触觉触觉反馈告知驾驶员接管请求。该座椅配备了嵌入式软气动致动器阵列，并对其进行了全面建模和表征。在触觉反馈座椅的评估过程中，21 名参与者在驾驶模拟器中进行了一系列模拟实验，体验了座椅带来的听觉和触觉反馈。通过成熟的方法对车辆技术进行了评估，以了解触觉反馈驾驶座椅的接受度（有用性和满意度）和可用性。

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IEEE Transactions on Haptics COMPUTER SCIENCE, CYBERNETICS-

CiteScore

5.90

自引率

13.80%

发文量

109

审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： IEEE Transactions on Haptics (ToH) is a scholarly archival journal that addresses the science, technology, and applications associated with information acquisition and object manipulation through touch. Haptic interactions relevant to this journal include all aspects of manual exploration and manipulation of objects by humans, machines and interactions between the two, performed in real, virtual, teleoperated or networked environments. Research areas of relevance to this publication include, but are not limited to, the following topics: Human haptic and multi-sensory perception and action, Aspects of motor control that explicitly pertain to human haptics, Haptic interactions via passive or active tools and machines, Devices that sense, enable, or create haptic interactions locally or at a distance, Haptic rendering and its association with graphic and auditory rendering in virtual reality, Algorithms, controls, and dynamics of haptic devices, users, and interactions between the two, Human-machine performance and safety with haptic feedback, Haptics in the context of human-computer interactions, Systems and networks using haptic devices and interactions, including multi-modal feedback, Application of the above, for example in areas such as education, rehabilitation, medicine, computer-aided design, skills training, computer games, driver controls, simulation, and visualization.