2018/11/16 by Jean Elsner, Elsner, Jean
Engineering · Psychology · #Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Human-Automation Interaction and Safety #Robotics (cs.RO) #Vehicle Dynamics and Control Systems
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1811.06895
openalex publication_date 2018/11/16 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Current advances in the development of autonomous cars suggest that driverless cars may see wide-scale deployment in the near future. Research by both industry and academia is driven by potential benefits of this new technology, including reductions in fatalities and improvements in traffic and fuel efficiency as well as greater mobility for people who will or cannot drive cars themselves. A deciding factor for the adoption of self-driving cars besides safety will be the comfort of the passengers. This report looks at cost functions currently used in motion planning methods for autonomous on-road driving. Specifically, how the human perception of how comfortable a trajectory is can be formulated within cost functions.