Prediction of Future Collision Risk for Truck Drivers Using the Time-Series Autonomic Nerve Function

Healthcare for truck drivers is an important issue. To prevent fatigue-related collisions among drivers, objective assessments of their physiological states are essential. A simple and quantitative evaluation method for fatigue involves the use of autonomic nerve function (ANF) indices obtained from...

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Main Authors: Nao Ito, Shunsuke Minusa, Takeshi Tanaka, Yun Li, Hiroyuki Kuriyama
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Language:English
Published: IEEE 2023-01-01
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10186273/
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author Nao Ito
Shunsuke Minusa
Takeshi Tanaka
Yun Li
Hiroyuki Kuriyama
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Takeshi Tanaka
Yun Li
Hiroyuki Kuriyama
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description Healthcare for truck drivers is an important issue. To prevent fatigue-related collisions among drivers, objective assessments of their physiological states are essential. A simple and quantitative evaluation method for fatigue involves the use of autonomic nerve function (ANF) indices obtained from heart rate variability analysis. However, predicting the occurrence of crashes using only physiological data is challenging. In most previous studies, the targets of driving situations have been often limited, or the prediction targets have been set as the driver’s internal state rather than the accident. In this paper, we propose a novel collision risk prediction model using ANF and several simple external information types, which can be extracted from standard in-vehicle sensors without limiting the driving scene. Our experiments using actual truck drivers’ data reveal that the proposed model can achieve collision risk prediction for the following 30 min with an accuracy of 74.9% recall and 0.79 AUC. Furthermore, we discover that simple external information obtained based on the vehicle speed significantly contributes to the prediction accuracy. As our prediction method only requires commonly equipped sensors as the sources of external information, this method is expected to be easily implemented not only for truck driving but also for general vehicle driving, where crashes are often likely.
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spelling doaj.art-230fbedfb26a48fcb75ba504ab23e3032023-09-11T23:02:42ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362023-01-0111942189422610.1109/ACCESS.2023.329631410186273Prediction of Future Collision Risk for Truck Drivers Using the Time-Series Autonomic Nerve FunctionNao Ito0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0929-4418Shunsuke Minusa1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8186-3603Takeshi Tanaka2Yun Li3Hiroyuki Kuriyama4Research and Development Group, Hitachi Ltd., Tokyo, JapanResearch and Development Group, Hitachi Ltd., Tokyo, JapanResearch and Development Group, Hitachi Ltd., Tokyo, JapanResearch and Development Group, Hitachi Ltd., Tokyo, JapanResearch and Development Group, Hitachi Ltd., Tokyo, JapanHealthcare for truck drivers is an important issue. To prevent fatigue-related collisions among drivers, objective assessments of their physiological states are essential. A simple and quantitative evaluation method for fatigue involves the use of autonomic nerve function (ANF) indices obtained from heart rate variability analysis. However, predicting the occurrence of crashes using only physiological data is challenging. In most previous studies, the targets of driving situations have been often limited, or the prediction targets have been set as the driver’s internal state rather than the accident. In this paper, we propose a novel collision risk prediction model using ANF and several simple external information types, which can be extracted from standard in-vehicle sensors without limiting the driving scene. Our experiments using actual truck drivers’ data reveal that the proposed model can achieve collision risk prediction for the following 30 min with an accuracy of 74.9% recall and 0.79 AUC. Furthermore, we discover that simple external information obtained based on the vehicle speed significantly contributes to the prediction accuracy. As our prediction method only requires commonly equipped sensors as the sources of external information, this method is expected to be easily implemented not only for truck driving but also for general vehicle driving, where crashes are often likely.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10186273/Autonomic nerve functioncollisiondeep learningfatigueheart rate variabilitylong short-term memory
spellingShingle Nao Ito
Shunsuke Minusa
Takeshi Tanaka
Yun Li
Hiroyuki Kuriyama
Prediction of Future Collision Risk for Truck Drivers Using the Time-Series Autonomic Nerve Function
IEEE Access
Autonomic nerve function
collision
deep learning
fatigue
heart rate variability
long short-term memory
title Prediction of Future Collision Risk for Truck Drivers Using the Time-Series Autonomic Nerve Function
title_full Prediction of Future Collision Risk for Truck Drivers Using the Time-Series Autonomic Nerve Function
title_fullStr Prediction of Future Collision Risk for Truck Drivers Using the Time-Series Autonomic Nerve Function
title_full_unstemmed Prediction of Future Collision Risk for Truck Drivers Using the Time-Series Autonomic Nerve Function
title_short Prediction of Future Collision Risk for Truck Drivers Using the Time-Series Autonomic Nerve Function
title_sort prediction of future collision risk for truck drivers using the time series autonomic nerve function
topic Autonomic nerve function
collision
deep learning
fatigue
heart rate variability
long short-term memory
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10186273/
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