During each year many road accidents are caused by the drowsiness of the driver: for this reason, to equip each car with a system that can alert the driver about a drowsiness event can be crucial to make driving safer and reduce the mortality rate associated to this cause. Such a system should monitor the vital parameters of the driver in a minimally invasive way, and use the measured data to detect if he/she is getting sleepy. In this work a non-contact technique based on the use of radars is proposed: two different radar systems are used to detect vital parameters of the driver (heart and respiration rates), and their performance are compared.
Slow-time mmwave radar vibrometry for drowsiness detection
Ciattaglia G.
;Spinsante S.;Gambi E.
2021-01-01
Abstract
During each year many road accidents are caused by the drowsiness of the driver: for this reason, to equip each car with a system that can alert the driver about a drowsiness event can be crucial to make driving safer and reduce the mortality rate associated to this cause. Such a system should monitor the vital parameters of the driver in a minimally invasive way, and use the measured data to detect if he/she is getting sleepy. In this work a non-contact technique based on the use of radars is proposed: two different radar systems are used to detect vital parameters of the driver (heart and respiration rates), and their performance are compared.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
