The highly immersive driving simulator

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Specification of function

With advancing automation in the automotive industry, the role of the driver is changing permanently. It must be ensured that man and machine work together as efficiently, cooperatively and unambiguously as possible. In order to ensure safe transfer situations between the automated vehicle and the driver and to quantify the safety gain of assistance systems, considerable efforts are being made globally.

Since the human factor is decisive for these investigations and cannot be simulated with sufficient validity, driving simulators are an indispensable and decisive tool. In particular, the simulation of driving maneuvers in safety-critical driving situations must be carried out in such a way that the driver feels realistically placed in a driving situation. Convincing immersion, i.e. realistic perception of acceleration and changes of direction, can only be achieved with a few maneuvers. In order to meet the requirements of future vehicle development, TU Dresden, together with AMST-Systemtechnik GmbH and financial support from BMVI, has been implementing the worldwide unique project "highly immersive driving simulator" since the beginning of 2019. This driving simulator development enables for the first time a realistic perception of vehicle behaviour and thus revolutionises the development of automated vehicles.

The concept of a self-propelled, tire-based driving simulator theoretically allows an unlimited expansion of the working space, which in turn leads to a significant increase in simulation quality.

Further information on the highly immersive driving simulator can be found on the Interset page of the Faculty of Transport Sciences.

Research possibilities

• Investigations of driver assistance systems
• Simulative vehicle dynamics investigations
• Driving psychological investigations

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