Abstract
Improving position of car drivers leads to superior driving performance. Ensuring an ideal position can be achieved by real-time tracking and evaluation of the driver’s posture. Thus, this paper proposes a lower-body tracking system using inertial sensors. The developed equipment has the ability to compare the driver’s posture at a given moment with an ideal posture, recorded in the calibration phase, with hardware equipment. In order to compare and evaluate the driver’s postures during driving the car, a mathematical model of the human body has been developed, having as input data the measurements realized with the inertial sensors. This product contains great added value (software component) on a hardware structure (parts such as: smartphone, inertial sensors and controller) which already exists on the market.
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The publishing of this paper was supported by the project no. 1804/2018, entitled “SIM-TACK/Real-time motion tracking system for physiotherapy exercises for people with special educational needs” financed by Transilvania University of Brasov, programme “Grants for interdisciplinary teams”, competition 2018.
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Butnariu, S., Mogan, G., Antonya, C. (2019). Using Inertial Sensors in Driver Posture Tracking Systems. In: Burnete, N., Varga, B. (eds) Proceedings of the 4th International Congress of Automotive and Transport Engineering (AMMA 2018). AMMA2018 2018. Proceedings in Automotive Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94409-8_2
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