WO1998029847A1 - Sleepiness detection for vehicle driver or machine operator - Google Patents
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- This invention relates to human sleepiness, drowsiness or (lack of) alertness detection and monitoring, to provide a warning indication in relation to the capacity or fitness to drive or operate (moving) machinery.
- sleep is a powerful and vital, biological need, which - if ignored - can be more incapacitating than realised, either by a sleepy individual subject, or by those tasking the sub j ect
- the invention is particularly, but not exclusively, concerned with the (automated) recognition of sleepiness and performance-impaired fatigue in drivers of motor vehicles upon the public highway.
- Drivers may not recollect having fallen asleep, but may be aware of a precursory sleepy state, as normal sleep does not occur spontaneously without warning
- the present invention addresses sleepiness monitoring, to engender awareness of a state of sleepiness, in turn to prompt safe countermeasures, such as stopping driving and having a nap.
- Sleepiness in the context of driving is problematic, because the behavioural and psychological processes which accompany falling asleep at the wheel may not typify the characteristics of sleep onset commonly reported under test conditions and simulations by sleep laboratories.
- Driving will tend to make a driver put considerable effort into remaining awake, and in doing so, the driver will exhibit different durations and sequences of psychological and behavioural events that precede sleep onset.
- sleep-related vehicle accident peaks are distinct from the peak times for all road traffic accidents in the UK - which are around the main commuting times of 08.00 hours and 17.00 hours.
- the term 'sleepiness' is used herein to embrace essentially pre-sleep conditions, rather than sleep detection itself, since, once allowed to fall asleep, it may be too late to provide useful accident avoidance warning indication or correction.
- a condition or state of sleepiness dictates • a lessened awareness of surroundings and events;
- the human body thus has a certain pre-disposition to drowsiness or sleep at certain periods during the day - especially in early morning hours and mid-afternoon.
- a monitor taking account of circadian and sleep parameters of an individual vehicle driver, and/or generic or universal human physiological factors, applicable to a whole class or category of drivers is integrated with 'real-time' behavioural sensing, such as of road condition and driver control action, including steering and acceleration, to provide an (audio-) visual indication of sleepiness.
- behavioural sensing such as of road condition and driver control action, including steering and acceleration
- aberrant driver steering behaviour associated with degrees of driver sleepiness, could be recognised and corrected - or at least a warning issued of the need for correction (by sleep restitution).
- any sleepiness warning indication should be of a kind and in sufficient time to trigger corrective action.
- a driver sleepiness, alertness or fitness condition monitor comprises a plurality of sensory inputs, variously and respectively related to, vehicle motion and steering direction, circadian or biorhythmic physiological patterns, recent driver experiences and pre-conditioning; such inputs being individually weighted, according to contributory importance, and combined in a computational decision algorithm or model, to provide a warning indication of sleepiness.
- Some embodiments of the invention can take into account actual, or real-time, vehicle driving actions, such as use of steering and accelerator, and integrate them with inherent biological factors and current personal data, for example recent sleep pattern, age, sex, recent alcohol consumption (within the legal limit), reliant upon input by a driver being monitored.
- Steering action or performance is best assessed when driving along a relatively straight road, such as a trunk, arterial road or motorway, when steering inputs of an alert driver are characterised by frequent, minor correction.
- embodiments of the steering detector would also be able to recognise when a vehicle is on such (typically straighter) roads.
- Some means either automatically through a steering sensor, or even from manual input by the driver, is desirable to recognised motorway as opposed to, say, town driving conditions, where large steering movements obscure steering irregularities or inconsistencies. Indeed, the very act of frequent steering tends to contribute to, or stimulate, wakefulness. Yet a countervailing tendency to inconsistent or erratic steering input may prevail, which when recognised can signal an underlying sleepiness tendency.
- journey times on such roads beyond a prescribed threshold - say 10 minutes - could trigger a steering action detection mode, with a comparative test against a steering characteristic algorithm, to detect sleepy-type driving, and issue a warning indication in good time for corrective action.
- accelerator action such as steadiness of depression, is differently assessed for cars than lorries, because of the different spring return action.
- a practical device would embody a visual and/or auditory display to relay warning messages and instructions to and responses from the user.
- interfaces for vehicle condition sensors such as those monitoring steering and accelerator use, could be incorporated.
- input push-button switches for driver responses could also feature - conveniently adjacent to the visual display.
- Visual display reinforcement messages could be combined with the auditory output.
- Ancillary factors such as driver age and sex, could also be input.
- An interface with a global positioning receiver and map database could also be envisaged, so that the sleepiness indicator could register automatically roads with particular characteristics, including a poor accident record, and adjust the monitoring criteria and output warning display accordingly.
- the device could be, say, dashboard or steering wheel mounted, for accessibility and readability to the driver. Ambient external light conditions could be sensed by a photocell. Attention could thus be paid at night to road lighting conditions.
- Vehicle driving cab temperature could have a profound effect upon sleepiness, and again could be monitored by a localised transducer at the driver station.
- the device could categorise sleepiness to an arbitrary scale.
- condition levels could be allocated:
- Road conditions could include:
- a circadian rhythm model allows a likelihood of falling asleep, or a sleep propensity, categorised between levels 1 and 4 - where 4 represents very likely and 1 represents unlikely.
- Figure 1 shows the circuit layout of principal elements in a sleepiness monitor for a road vehicle driver
- Figure 2 show an installation variant for the indicator and control unit of the sleepiness monitor shown in Figure 1 ;
- Figure 3 shows a graphical plot of varying susceptibility to sleepiness over a 24 hour period, reflecting human body circadian rhythm patterns
- Figures 4 and 5, 6 and 7, 8 and 9 show paired personal performance graphs, reflecting steering wheel inputs for three individual drivers, each pair representing comparative alert and sleepy (simulated) driving conditions;
- Figure 10 shows principal elements of a driver monitor system, with an integrated multi-mode sensing module
- Figure 11 shows a sensing arrangement for motion and steering, in relation to respective reference or datum axes, for the multi-mode sensing module of Figures 10 and 12;
- Figure 12 shows a the multi-mode sensor of Figure 10 in more detail
- Figures 13A through 13D show a variant housing for the multi-mode sensor of Figures 10 and 12;
- Figures 14A and 14B show steering wheel dynamic sensing geometry
- FIGS 15A through 15D show steering wheel movement and attendant correction
- Figures 16A and 16B show vehicle acceleration and correction
- Figure 17 shows periodic variation of sleepiness/alertness and attendant warning threshold levels
- Figure 18 shows the sub-division of system operational time cycles
- Figure 19 shows system data storage or accumulation for computation
- Figures 20/2.2 through 20/5.5 variously represent system data and computational factors and attendant software flow charts for implementing the device of Figures 1 through 19;
- Figure 21 shows a circuit diagram of a particular multi-mode sensor, with a magnetic- inductive flux coupling sensing of rate of change of steering wheel movement.
- a sleepiness monitor 10 is integrated within a housing 11 , configured for ease of in-vehicle installation, for example as a dashboard mounting, or, as depicted in Figure 2, mounted upon a steering wheel 12 itself.
- the monitor 10 would be self-contained, with an internal battery power supply and all the necessary sensors fitted internally, to allow the device to be personal to a driver and moved with the driver from one vehicle to another
- An interface 19 for example a multi-way proprietary plug-and-socket connector, is provided in the housing, to allow interconnection with an additional external vehicle battery power supply and various sensors monitoring certain vehicle conditions and attendant driver control action
- a steering wheel movement sensor 13 monitors steering inputs from a driver (not shown) to steering wheel 12
- the sensor 13 could be located within the steering wheel 12 and column assembly More sophisticated integrated multi-channel, remote sensing is described later in relation to Figures 11 and 12
- an accelerator movement sensor 15 monitors driver inputs to an accelerator pedal 14
- the sensor 15 could be an accelerometer located within the housing 11 in a self- contained variant Care is taken to obviate the adverse effects of vehicle vibration upon dynamic sensory measurements
- vehicle motion and acceleration could be recognised through a transmission drive shaft sensor 27, coupled to a vehicle road wheel 26 or by interfacing with existing sensors or control processors for other purposes, such as engine and transmission management
- a steering wheel movement sensor module may rely upon a wireless or contact-free linkage - such as magnetic flux coupling between magnetic elements on the wheel or shaft and an adjacent static inductive or capacitative transducer to register rate of change of wheel movement (as opposed to, say an average RMS computation of Figures 15A and 15B)
- the device could have an internal memory of speed and steering wheel movements and so the basis of a 'performance history' of driver actions as a basis for decision upon issuing warning indication.
- the interface 19 would enable data to be down-loaded onto a PC via, say, the PC parallel port or over a radio or infra-red 'wireless' link.
- a further photocell sensor 29 monitors ambient light conditions from the driving position and is calibrated to assess both day-night transitions and the presence or absence of street lighting at night.
- multi-mode or multiple (independent) factor sensing is integrated within a common so-called 'steering wheel adaptor' module 33.
- the housing 11 incorporates a visual display panel or screen 18, for relaying instructions and warning indications to the user.
- a touch-sensitive inter-actional screen could be deployed.
- a loudspeaker 21 can relay reinforcement sound messages, for an integrated audio- visual driver interaction.
- a microphone 23 might be used to record and interpret driver responses, possibly using speech recognition software.
- interactive driver interrogation and response can be implemented a series of push button switches 16 arrayed alongside the screen 18, for the input of individual driver responses to preliminary questions displayed upon the screen 18.
- non-contentious factors such as driver age and sex may be accounted for, together with more subjective review of recent sleep history.
- Vehicle cabin temperature is taken into account, primarily to register excessively high temperatures which might induce sleepiness.
- Driver cab temperatures could be monitored with a temperature sensor probe 31 (located away from any heater output vents).
- a threshold of some 25 degrees C might be set, with temperatures in excess of this level triggering a score of plus 0.5.
- the monitor relies upon the working assumption that the driver has had little or no recent or material alcohol consumption.
- the physiological circadian rhythm 'template' or reference model pre-loaded into the monitor memory is adjusted with the weighting scores indicated.
- the steering sensor is actively engaged and checked to determine the road conditions.
- the sleepiness scale values reflected in the unweighted graph of Figure 3, can broadly be categorised as:
- An internal memory module may store data from the various remote sensors 13, 15, 27, 29, 31 - together with models or algorithms of human body circadian rhythms and weighting factors to be applied to individual sensory inputs.
- An internal microprocessor is programmed to perform calculations according to driver and sensory inputs and to provide an appropriate (audio-)visual warning indication of sleepiness through the display screen 18.
- Figure 2 shows a steering-wheel mounted variant, in which the housing 11 sits between lower radial spokes 17 on the underside of steering wheel 12 - in a prominent viewing position for the driver, but not obstructing the existing instrumentation, in particular speedometer, nor any air bag fitted.
- Ambient temperature and lighting could also be assessed from this steering wheel vantage point.
- This location also facilitates registering of steering wheel movement.
- an internal accelerometer and battery external connections could be obviated.
- a motor vehicle orientated monitor has been disclosed in the foregoing example, the operating principles are more widely applicable to moving machine-operator environments, as diverse as cranes, construction site excavators and drilling rigs - possibly subject to further research and development.
- Figures 4 through 9 show the respective steering 'performances' of three individual subjects, designated by references S1 , S2 and S3, under alert and sleepy (simulated) driving conditions.
- Each graph comprises two associated plots, representing steering wheel movement in different ways.
- one plot directly expresses deviations of steering wheel position from a straight- ahead reference position - allotted a 'zero' value.
- This plot depicts the number of times a steering wheel is turned in either direction, over a given time period - allowing for a +/- 3% 'wobble' factor as a 'dead' or neutral band about the reference position.
- the other plot is an averaged value of steering wheel movement amplitude (ie the extent of movement from the reference position) - using the RMS (root mean squared) of the actual movements.
- the graphs reflect a characteristic steering performance or behaviour.
- Figure 4 reflects steering behaviour of an alert subject S1.
- the 'zero-crossing' and 'RMS' plots for alert subject S1 reflect a generally continual and consistent steering correction.
- Figure 8 reflects steering behaviour of yet another alert subject S3 and Figure 9 that of that subject S3 when sleepy.
- Each pair of graphs shows corresponding marked differences in steering behaviour between an alert and sleepy driver.
- This characteristic difference validates the use of actual or real-time dynamic steering behaviour to monitor driver sleepiness.
- RMS MORE VARIABLE. RMS averaging may be superceded by other sensing techniques, such as that of the magnetic flux-coupled, inductive sensor of Figure 21 , which can register more directly rate of change of steering wheel movement.
- Figure 10 shows a block schematic overall circuit layout or principal elements. More specifically, the various sensing modes - including vehicle motion (linear acceleration), steering wheel angle, ambient light, temperature, are combined with an audio sounder and mark button in an integrated so-called 'steering wheel adaptor' module 33.
- vehicle motion linear acceleration
- steering wheel angle steering wheel angle
- ambient light ambient light
- temperature an audio sounder and mark button
- the sensor module 33 is connected through a cable way to an electronic interface 32, which in turn is configured for connection to a personal computer parallel port 39 through a cable link and a mains charger unit 37.
- Angular sensing could be, say, through a variable magnetic flux coupling between magnets set on the steering wheel or column and on adjacent static mounts.
- Figures 13A through 13D show a master sensor unit 33 with a simplified LED warning indicator array. The detailed circuitry is shown in Figure 21.
- the steering sensor measures a change in inductance through an array of some three inductors L1 , L2 and L3 through magnetic flux coupling changes caused by movement in relation to the magnetic field of a small magnet 'M' static-mounted upon the steering column - at a convenient, unobtrusive location.
- the inductors L1 , L2 and L3 are energised by a 32kHz square wave generated by a local processor clock.
- Induced voltage is rectified, smoothed, sampled and measured by the local processor some 16 times per second.
- the processor analyses the results digitally to determine the extent of steering wheel movement.
- the local processor feeds sensor data to an executive processor loaded with sleepiness detector algorithms, base upon such factors as circadian rhythm of sleepiness, timing and duration of sleep and ambient light, and which presents an overall indication of driver sleepiness level.
- Figures 14A through 15D relate to wheel movement sensing by a more indirect computational technique, involving RMS averging, compared with the direct rate of change capability of magnetic flux-coupled inductive sensing of the Figure 21 circuitry.
- Figures 14A and 14B represent dynamic steering wheel movement sensing.
- Figures 15A and 15B represent respectively 'raw' and adjusted wheel movements over time.
- Figure 15C represents a 'zero crossings' count, derived from the adjusted plot of Figure 15B.
- Figure 15D depicts the 'dead band' range of wheel movement allowed.
- Figures 16A and 16B respectively, represent 'raw' and corrected plots of vehicle acceleration over time - allowing computation of an RMS average acceleration.
- Figure 17 depicts a characteristic circadian sleepiness rhythm or pattern, with a three- tiered sleepiness warning threshold levels.
- Figure 19 represents data storage array allocation, for monitoring and learning of factors such as vehicle acceleration and wheel movement.
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