Distributed Simulation to Support Driving Safety Research

Over half of all crashes involve two or more vehicles. While driving simulation provides an effective way to study many crash scenarios in a well-controlled environment, it cannot capture the complex dynamics between two human drivers in the seconds leading up to a multi-car crash or safety-critical event. Examples of multi-driver simulation extend back to the 1980s in military applications, but only in the last five years have several groups begun to be active in this area to study connected and automated vehicles. The authors present the development of a distributed simulation capability for National Advanced Driving Simulator (NADS) MiniSim™ simulators. This capability will eventually benefit all MiniSim customers who are interested in performing multi-driver experiments. Technical details about the implementation are documented, as well as future work that remains to achieve a larger vision for cross-platform distributed simulation.

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  • English

Media Info

  • Media Type: Digital/other
  • Features: Figures; References; Tables;
  • Pagination: 32p

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 01676949
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Files: UTC, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
  • Created Date: Jul 28 2018 5:02PM