Discrimination of Driver Fatigue Based on Distortion Energy Density Theory and Multiple Physiological Signals

Driver fatigue is an important contributor to traffic accidents, and driver fatigue is significant for the safety of people’s lives. Aiming to prevent traffic accidents caused by driver fatigue, a series of real driving experiments was carried out in the present work. First, based on an a...

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Autores principales: Lin Wang, Hong Wang, Jintao Liu
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Publicado: IEEE 2021
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Sumario:Driver fatigue is an important contributor to traffic accidents, and driver fatigue is significant for the safety of people&#x2019;s lives. Aiming to prevent traffic accidents caused by driver fatigue, a series of real driving experiments was carried out in the present work. First, based on an analysis with respect to distortion energy density (DED) theory and the experimental results, the upper trapezius at 6<sup>th</sup> neck vertebrae is more sensitive to driver fatigue and easier to fatigue than that at 7<sup>th</sup> neck vertebrae in a real driving. And then 2 cm from the 6<sup>th</sup> vertebrae on both sides were selected as the locations of data acquisition for electromyography (EMG) signal. The experimental results show that the approximate entropy (ApEn) from the electroencephalography (EEG), EMG, and respiration (RESP) signals decreases with increasing driving time, indicating that the degree of fatigue increases. After approximately 90 min, the rate of decrease in ApEn becomes slow, indicating deeper driver fatigue. According to three-D analysis, principal component analysis, and fuzzy C-means clustering analysis, the EEG-EMG combination effectively reflects the state of drivers. Finally, the ApEns from EEG and EMG were selected as independent variables, and a discriminant model of driver fatigue based on Mahalanobis distance theory was built. The accuracy of the model is up to 90.92&#x0025; by 10-fold cross validation. The reasons for the high accuracy are the reasonable selection of the locations of EMG data acquisition and better degree of discrimination of EEG and EMG. The main contributions of this study are to provide a theoretical foundation for establishing internationally recognized standard locations for neck EMG data acquisition, and to provide a feasible method for discriminating driver fatigue in real driving tasks.