Title of the Research
Active Risk Management System for Occupant Safety

Researcher
Pinar Boyraz

Supervisor: Dr. Memis Acar & Dr. David Kerr Sponsors/Funding Collaborator: Department: Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Contact Details: Address: Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Holywell Building, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, LE11 3UZ, UK Room No: Holywell Building Mechatronics Laboratory Phone: +44 (0)1509 22 6579 Fax:   E-mail: P.Boyraz@lboro.ac.uk

Active Risk Monitoring System Design for Occupant Safety

Main Objective of the Research

The aim of the research is to identify and design a ‘monitoring module’ which could possibly be embedded into cars in the form of multi-sensor system and can work with newly introduced/already existing active controllers.

Current system is designed to investigate the correlations between:

• Physiological / Biometric Signals

• Pupil area
• Eye gaze vector
• Pressure/ Force on steering wheel

• Inputs by driver

• Steering wheel angle determining lane keeping performance, throttle openness determining speed

• Vehicle dynamic signals from the simulator

• Lane deviation, speed

Remote NIR Range Eye Tracker

1. Gaze Vector Output: It is possible to measure the gaze vector continuously in real time by using NIR illumination.






2. Continuous Measurement of Eye Location, Gaze Vector and Pupil Area




3. Pressure Measurement by Strain Gauge




4. Vehicle Dyanmics and Driver Inputs




5. Initial Correlations/ Relationships between signals



Any correlation and/or simultaneous abnormality of the signals are being investigated by statistical analysis.

Biography of the Researcher: Pinar Boyraz is currently a PhD Research Student in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at Loughborough University, UK. She completed her Double Major BSc. Studies in Textile Engineering in 2003, and in Mechanical Engineering in 2004, both at Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey. She commenced her MSc. in System Dynamics and Control Branch of Mechanical Engineering in 2003 in ITU, but dropped it in order to join Loughborough University.

Areas of Interest: Active Car Safety Systems, Real-time Computer Vision, Image Processing and Analysis for Machine Vision Applications, System Dynamics and Control, Mechatronics.

Publications:
- Boyraz, P., Yilmaz,O., Ucar, N. and Ertugrul, S., Fault Detection in Knitted Structures Using Wavelet Analysis and Optimized Filter Design, 9th Mechatronics Conference, 30 August-1 September 2004, Ankara, Turkey

Start Date: October 2004
Duration: 3 years
Part-time/Full-time: Full-time