News

-- The 3rd alliance technical meeting-NEDO driving behavioral signal processing research team is held at Nanyang University, Singapore during Jan 25-27, 2007.

-- "Advances for In-Vehicle and Mobile Systems: Challenges for International Standards" will be available in 2007.

-- UTDrive students successfully presented their senior design projects on Nov 22, 2006.

-- NEDO staffs visited CRSS/UTD during Oct 18-19, 2006.

Welcome to UTDrive: The Smart Vehicle Project!

UTDrive is part of three-year NEDO-supported international collaboration between Japan, Italy, Singapore, Turkey, and USA. The UTDrive (USA) project has been designed specifically to:

• collect rich multi-modal data recorded in a car environment (i.e., audio, video, gas/brake pedal pressures, forward distance, GPS information, and CAN-Bus information including vehicle speed, steering angle, pedal status),
• assess the effect of speech interactive system on driver behavior,
• formulate better algorithms to increase accuracy for in-vehicle ASR systems,
• design dialog management which is capable of adapting itself to support a driver's cognitive capacity
• develop a framework for smart inter-vehicle communications

The results of this project will help to develop a framework for building effective models of driver behavior and driver-to-machine interactions for safe driving. In real driving situations, even a small improvement in cognitive driver load management can improve and reduce accidents.