Reliable Identification of Vehicle-Boarding Actions Based on Fuzzy Inference Syste

Sensors (Basel). 2017 Feb 9;17(2):333. doi: 10.3390/s17020333.

Abstract

Existing smartphone-based solutions to prevent distracted driving suffer from inadequate system designs that only recognize simple and clean vehicle-boarding actions, thereby failing to meet the required level of accuracy in real-life environments. In this paper, exploiting unique sensory features consistently monitored from a broad range of complicated vehicle-boarding actions, we propose a reliable and accurate system based on fuzzy inference to classify the sides of vehicle entrancebyleveragingbuilt-insmartphonesensorsonly. Theresultsofourcomprehensiveevaluation on three vehicle types with four participants demonstrate that the proposed system achieves 91.1%∼94.0% accuracy, outperforming other methods by 26.9%∼38.4% and maintains at least 87.8 %accuracy regardless of smartphone positions and vehicle types.

Keywords: driver identification; driving while distracted; fuzzy inference system; inertial sensors; vehicle-boarding actions.