Usagers vulnérables et véhicules industriels en milieu urbain: approche pluridisciplinaire pour la conception d'une assistance à la conduite d'un camion

Vulnerable users safety is an important issue in terms of public health: Most of these accidents involving truck and vulnerable user in urban areas has tragic consequences for user and implicates trucks presence in urban areas. The VIVRE2 project (ANR05-PDIT) took as its objective the study and design of technological solutions for significantly reducing the number of these accidents. Around the truck driving simulator of RENAULT TRUCKS, designers, psychologists and ergonomists (LESCOT/INRETS and LEACM/University of Lyon2) specified strategies of driver assistance according to critical situations and Man Machine Interface. A tool for designing assistance systems has been specified and applied to the detection of vulnerable users in order to assess the relevance and efficiency of a homogeneous system for the whole identified situations. The designed system was evolved on the dynamical driving simulator. This paper presents the method for designing a driver assistance system, from contextual analysis to specification of HMI and strategies of assistance.