The Driver Model with the Consideration of Driving Skill

The driver is an important component of the driver-vehicle-road closed-loop system, and there are great differences in vehicle handling by drivers with different driving skills. Compared with novice drivers, skilled drivers have a more detailed understanding of vehicle dynamics and more accurate perception of vehicle status. However, the individual differences between drivers can’t be expressed in existing driver models in detail. Therefore, it is necessary to establish driver models which can simulate drivers with different driving skill in order to quantify the man-vehicle-road closed-loop system more accurately. This paper presents three driver models which distinguish drivers from three aspects: preview characteristic, reaction ability and their understanding of vehicle dynamics. To verify the validity and superiority of the driver model above, the path tracking simulation is carried out using Carsim/Simulink. The simulation results show that the proposed model has a better performance compared with the existing driver models.