In the passenger seat: investigating ride comfort measures in autonomous cars

M Elbanhawi, M Simic, R Jazar - IEEE Intelligent transportation …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The prospect of driverless cars wide-scale deployment is imminent owing to the advances in
robotics, computational power, communications, and sensor technologies. This promises …

Research on the comfort of vehicle passengers considering the vehicle motion state and passenger physiological characteristics: Improving the passenger comfort of …

C Wang, X Zhao, R Fu, Z Li - … of environmental research and public health, 2020 - mdpi.com
Comfort is a significant factor that affects passengers' choice of autonomous vehicles. The
comfort of an autonomous vehicle is largely determined by its control algorithm. Therefore, if …

Embedded system to evaluate the passenger comfort in public transportation based on dynamical vehicle behavior with user's feedback

JC Castellanos, F Fruett - Measurement, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper shows the development of a system (Hardware, Firmware and Software) focused
to assess the dynamic motion factors that affect the comfort in public transportation systems …

Autonomous cars: The tension between occupant experience and intersection capacity

S Le Vine, A Zolfaghari, J Polak - Transportation Research Part C …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Systems that enable high levels of vehicle-automation are now beginning to enter
the commercial marketplace. Road vehicles capable of operating independently of real-time …

Impacts of autonomous cars from a traffic engineering perspective

T Tettamanti, I Varga, Z Szalay - Periodica Polytechnica Transportation …, 2016 - pp.bme.hu
The era of autonomous vehicles infer new challenges in several fields. When autonomous
vehicles take over the road in a large volume, consumer preferences around car-ownership …

Toward a comfortable driving experience for a self-driving shuttle bus

I Bae, J Moon, J Seo - Electronics, 2019 - mdpi.com
The convergence of mechanical, electrical, and advanced ICT technologies, driven by
artificial intelligence and 5G vehicle-to-everything (5G-V2X) connectivity, will help to develop …

Comfort in automated driving: An analysis of preferences for different automated driving styles and their dependence on personality traits

H Bellem, B Thiel, M Schrauf, JF Krems - Transportation research part F …, 2018 - Elsevier
As technical realization of highly and fully automated vehicles draws closer, attention is
being shifted from sheer feasibility to the question of how an acceptable driving style and …

Velocity control strategies to improve automated vehicle driving comfort

Y Du, C Liu, Y Li - IEEE Intelligent transportation systems …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automated vehicles are rapidly emerging as the new generation of transport tools. Relevant
research mainly focuses on collision avoidance, lane keeping, and coordination control to …

Road disturbance estimation and cloud-aided comfort-based route planning

Z Li, IV Kolmanovsky, EM Atkins, J Lu… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates a comfort-based route planner that considers both travel time and
ride comfort. We first present a framework of simultaneous road profile estimation and …

A smart car control model for brake comfort based on car following

Z Wu, Y Liu, G Pan - IEEE transactions on intelligent …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper demonstrates a novel car-following model focused on passenger comfort, for
example, a rapid deceleration will make passengers uncomfortable. The brake comfort …