Vehicle Haptic Feedback Steering Actuator for Driver Training
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current autonomous vehicle systems lack effective methods for providing real-time feedback and training to human drivers on optimal driving paths, especially in semi-autonomous modes, which can lead to inefficient learning and potential safety issues.
Innovation Solution
A computer-controlled vehicle system that records and provides haptic feedback based on deviations from an optimal path, allowing human drivers to learn and improve their driving skills by interacting with the vehicle's propulsion, steering, and braking systems in a predefined course.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If autonomous vehicle systems operate in semi-autonomous modes without real-time feedback mechanisms, then the vehicle can function with partial automation, but driver learning efficiency and safety improve poorly
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides real-time haptic feedback through the steering wheel to guide the driver back to the optimal path. The feedback mechanism includes force application to the steering wheel and visual displays showing the optimal path, enabling continuous driver training and improvement while maintaining safety in semi-autonomous operation modes
2Productivity
If the system provides continuous haptic feedback through steering wheel actuation, then driver training effectiveness improves, but system complexity and energy consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies haptic feedback selectively rather than continuously - activating steering wheel actuation only when the driver deviates from the optimal path by more than a threshold amount. This partial action approach maintains driver training effectiveness while reducing unnecessary system complexity and energy consumption
3Manufacturing precision
If the system monitors and actuates vehicle controls continuously to enforce optimal path adherence, then driving precision improves, but loss of time and computational resources increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-calculates the optimal path through the course before the driver begins navigation. By determining the optimal path in advance using recorded historical data and performance metrics, the system avoids real-time complex computations during driver operation, thus maintaining high path adherence precision while minimizing computational time loss
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enhances driver training by providing real-time feedback and improving driving skills through interactive learning, enabling safer and more efficient navigation along predefined courses.
Implementation Method 1
The steering actuator is configured to apply a force to the steering wheel in response to a deviation of the actual path from the optimal path
Data Source
AI summary
A computer in a vehicle is programmed to operate a vehicle along a predefined course according to predetermined criteria, record an optimal path through the predefined course based on operation of the vehicle according to the predetermined criteria, monitor operation of at least one vehicle control while the vehicle is operated by a human driver along the predefined course, and actuate the at least one vehicle control based on a predetermined deviance from the optimal path.