Haptic-enabled driving training system

The objective of the current work is a driving training system to capture and transfer skills from the expert to the novice drivers. The emphasis is on the haptic feedback applied on the steering wheel and the accelerator pedal to improve trainee´s performance. For capturing skills, driving signals of an expert driver, performing a given task using a developed driving simulator, are recorded as reference trajectories. For transferring, two different methods are considered: guidance to assist and disturbance to distract following the reference. For evaluation, two performance measures are assumed: trajectory-based and model-based. They are used not only to evaluate the progress of the trainee but also to tune the gain of controllers delivering haptic feedback.