Embedding surface electromyography (sEMG) sensors on a steering wheel detected driver fatigue with a weighted average F1 score of about 90%, outperforming existing methods.
Does embedding sEMG sensors on a steering wheel improve driver fatigue detection compared to existing methods?
Embedding sEMG sensors on a steering wheel provides a non-intrusive method for early detection of driver fatigue with high accuracy.
Automated Driving System (ADS) has attracted increasing attention but the state-of-the-art ADS largely on vehicle driving parameters and facial features, which lacks reliability. Approaches using physiological based sensors (e.g., electroencephalogram or electrocardiogram) are either too clumsy to wear or impractical to install. In this paper, we propose a novel driver fatigue detection method by embedding surface electromyography (sEMG) sensors on a steering wheel. Compared with existing methods, our approach is able to collect bio-signals in a non-intrusive way and detect driver fatigue at an earlier stage. The experimental results show that our approach outperforms existing methods with the weighted average F1 of about 90%. We also propose promising future directions to deploy this approach in real-life settings, such as applying multimodal learning using several supplementary sensors.
Lu et al. (Wed,) conducted a other in Driver fatigue. Surface electromyography (sEMG) sensors embedded on a steering wheel vs. Existing methods was evaluated on Driver fatigue detection (weighted average F1 score). Embedding surface electromyography (sEMG) sensors on a steering wheel detected driver fatigue with a weighted average F1 score of about 90%, outperforming existing methods.