Autonomous driving is a very relevant topic and is becoming crucial for the future of transportation. Besides the safety of autonomous vehicles, the perception of comfort is also a very important topic. Metrics for evaluating driving comfort are necessary to help an autonomous driving system understand what comfortable driving is. The master's thesis focuses on developing metrics that can assess the driving comfort of any given ride.
The thesis is divided into four parts. The first part presents the development of a mobile application for capturing vehicle movement data during a ride, as well as the psychophysiological characteristics of the passenger and the comfort score of the ride. In the second part, the developed application is used to collect data from rides with passengers. In total, data for 27 different rides with six passengers were obtained. The third part includes the analysis and preprocessing of data from the completed rides. The final part focuses on developing different metrics for assessing driving comfort.
The most successful of the developed metrics was estimating the driving comfort based on rules related to different accelerations. Metrics based on machine learning did not perform well due to the small amount of collected data.
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