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WiDrive: Adaptive WiFi-Based recognition of driver activity for real-time and safe takeover

  • Yunhao Bai
  • , Zejiang Wang
  • , Kuangyu Zheng
  • , Xiaorui Wang
  • , Junmin Wang
  • Ohio State University
  • University of Texas at Austin

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Abstract

Autonomous vehicles often need human driver to take over in some complicated conditions. Such a sudden takeover could jeopardize the vehicle's safety and stability if not han-dled properly. Hence, if the driver's takeover intention can be recognized as early as possible, the vehicle can have sufficient time to make important takeover preparation. The existing in-car monitoring systems are mostly based on camera, which have several key limitations, such as brightness condition and motion obscurity. On the other hand, WiFi-based wireless sensing has recently shown a great promise in human activity recognition, but mainly for large-scale movements performed in the room environment. In this paper, we propose WiDrive, a real-time in-car driver activity recognition system based on Channel State Information (CSI) changes of WiFi signals. WiDrive consists of three major components: A novel algorithm to extract small-scale in-car human activity features, a real-time recognition system based on Hidden Markov Model (HMM), and an online adaptation algo-rithm to adapt for different drivers and vehicles. We implement WiDrive with commercial WiFi devices and evaluate it in real cars. Our results show that WiDrive has an average recognition accuracy of 91.3% and improves the takeover safety.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2019 39th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, ICDCS 2019
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages901-911
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)9781728125190
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event39th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, ICDCS 2019 - Richardson, United States
Duration: 7 Jul 20199 Jul 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Volume2019-July
ISSN (Print)1063-6927
ISSN (Electronic)2575-8411

Conference

Conference39th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, ICDCS 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityRichardson
Period7/07/199/07/19

Keywords

  • Advanced Driving Assistance System
  • WiFi sensing
  • Wireless networks

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