Adaptive Transitions for Automation in Cars, Trucks, Busses and Motorcycles

Automated vehicles are entering the roads and automation is applied to cars, trucks, busses and even motorcycles today. High automation foresees transitions during driving in both directions. The driver and rider state become a critical parameter, since automation allows to safely intervene and hand control to the automation when manual driving is not performed safely anymore. When the control transits from automation to manual an appropriate driver state needs to be identified before releasing the automated control. The detection of driver states during manual and automated driving and an appropriate design of the HMI are crucial steps to support these transitions. State of the art SAE Level 3 systems do not take the driver state, personal preferences and predictions of road conditions into account. The ADAS&ME project, funded by the H2020 program of the European Commission, proposes an innovative and fully adaptive humanmachine interaction framework, able to support driver/rider state monitoring-based transitions in automated driving. The HMI framework is applied in the target vehicles: passenger car, truck, bus and motorcycle and in seven different use cases.