Seminar 2008 04 16 Haptic Gas Pedal

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CISST ERC Seminar
Neuromuscular Analysis of Haptic Gas Pedal Feedback during Car Following

Date: Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Time: 12:00pm
Place: CSEB B17 (Lunch will be served at 11:30am)

Speaker: David Abbink
Delft University of Technology
Title: Neuromuscular Analysis of Haptic Gas Pedal Feedback during Car Following
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Abstract and Bio

David Abbink works as a postdoctoral research fellow at Delft University of Technology, where he heads the Delft Haptics Laboratory. He will give a talk today about his PhD research - sponsored by Nissan Motor Company - during which he developed a haptic gas pedal that assists drivers in maintaining a safe separation to a lead vehicle. He analysed the impact of the continuous haptic support system on driver control behaviour; at the level of car-following behaviour, as well as at the level of neuromuscular motion control of the foot on the gas pedal. The main conclusion of the research is that the additional (haptic) feedback about the separation enables drivers to do part of the necessary control actions through fast reflexes, instead of through only visual feedback. As a consequence, drivers can generate the same (or an even better) car following performance with less control effort."