ABSTRACT
Driving simulators are a common and important tool used to conduct research in the automotive domain. This chapter details the value of using simulators as an alternative to on-road testing as they provide a safe, fast and cheap way to research human behaviour in vehicles and with automated driving systems. Moreover, this chapter describes the design and implementation of a set of generic automated driving algorithms and the performance of said algorithms in terms of car-following and lane-keeping performance. This chapter also describes the algorithms as implemented on the STISIM v3 driving simulation platform as part of the experimental set-up used in Chapters 4 and 6.
