Development and Assessment of a Driver Drowsiness Monitoring System

This project developed a prototype integrated system that combines machine vision-based
drowsy driver monitoring technology and analysis of operator/vehicle performance parameters to
reliably assess driver drowsiness. The purpose of this system will be to reliably quantify
commercial motor vehicle driver drowsiness and provide a real-time warning to the driver and/or
a control output to the commercial motor vehicleor other systems as warranted.
The work performed under the project included:
• Survey of the literature associated with the detection and monitoring of bouts of fatigue
and drowsiness.
• Preliminary focus group research to gather driver preferences for drowsiness feedback
and warnings.
• Machine vision-based eye closure monitor trade study.
• Development of an integrated prototype Driver Drowsiness Monitoring System.
• On-road evaluation of the Driver Drowsiness Monitoring System.