Driver simulation system and methods of performing the same

• US 10,259,467 B2
• Filed: 06/14/2016
• Issued: 04/16/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/17/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Systems Technology Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Systems Technology Incorporated
• Inventors: Rosenthal, Theodore J., Pegan, David, Yang, Peijie
• Primary Examiner(s): Mudrick, Timothy A
• Application Number:
  US15/181,589
• Publication Number:
  US 20160368506A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,036 Days
• Field of Search: 703 8
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 30/20 Design optimisation, verification or simulation optimisation, verification or simulation of circuit designs G06F30/30
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 9/04 for teaching control of land vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 9/052 characterised by provision for recording or measuring trainee's performance devices for psychotechnics, e.g. for vehicle drivers A61B5/16, A61B5/18

Abstract

A method of simulating manipulating a vehicle, the method including the steps of transmitting a simulation to a plurality of remote devices, gathering information pertaining to a response of each user to the simulation on each remote device, comparing each response of each user to determine a threshold value, rating each user'"'"'s performance based on the threshold value.

Claims

1. A method of simulating manipulating a vehicle, the method including the steps of:

transmitting a first simulation to a plurality of remote devices;

gathering information pertaining to a response of each user to the first simulation on each remote device;

comparing each response of each user to determine a threshold value; and

rating each user'"'"'s performance based on the threshold value; and

generating a second simulation automatically and without human intervention for each user based on each user'"'"'s deviation from the threshold value.

2. The method of claim 1, including the step of gathering information from a user to determine one of plurality of simulations to transmit to the remote devices.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the information gathered includes an attribute of operating the vehicle to be tested.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of gathering information pertaining to a response includes gathering values from at least one sensor coupled to the system.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein at least one sensor is a wheel unit, brake unit or pedal unit.

6. The method of claim 1, including the step of dividing the first simulation into at least one portion and determining at least one threshold value for each portion.

7. The method of claim 6, including the step of determining a rating for each user for each portion of the first simulation.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the first simulation includes information to gather during the execution of the simulation.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the first simulation includes a list of commands to execute during the first simulation.

10. A vehicle simulation system, including:

an information gathering unit gathers information on a desired simulation, selects a simulation based on the information gathered and transmits a simulation to a plurality of remote devices;

a simulation tracking unit that gathers information pertaining to a response of each user to the simulation on each remote device; and

a driver analysis unit that compares each response of each user to determine a threshold value and determines a rating for each user'"'"'s performance based on the threshold value;

wherein the simulation tracking unit is configured to generate custom simulations without human intervention for each user based on each user'"'"'s deviation from the threshold value.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the information gathering unit gathers information from a user to determine at least two of a plurality of simulations to transmit to the remote devices.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the information gathered includes an attribute of operating the vehicle to be tested.

13. The system of claim 10 wherein the simulation tracking unit gathers values from at least one sensor coupled to the system.

14. The system of claim 13 wherein at least one sensor is a wheel unit, brake unit or pedal unit.

15. The system of claim 10 wherein the simulation is divided into at least one portion and the threshold value is determined for each portion.

16. The system of claim 15 wherein a rating is determined for each user for each portion of the simulation.

17. The system of claim 10 wherein the information gathered pertains to a simulation of driving an automobile.

18. The system of claim 10 wherein the simulation includes information to gather during the execution of the simulation.

19. The system of claim 10 wherein the simulation includes a list of commands to execute during the simulation.

20. A method of simulating manipulating a vehicle, the method including the steps of:

transmitting a first simulation to a plurality of remote devices, wherein the first simulation comprises a plurality of portions;

gathering information pertaining to a response of each of a plurality of users to each of the plurality of portions of the first simulation on each remote device;

comparing each response of each of the plurality of users to each of the plurality of portions of the first simulation to determine a plurality of threshold values for each of the plurality of portions of the first simulation; and

rating each user'"'"'s performance based on the plurality of threshold values; and

generating a plurality of custom simulations for each of the plurality of users based on each user'"'"'s deviation from the plurality of threshold values for each of the plurality of portions of the first simulation, wherein the each of the plurality of custom simulations is generated by meshing together at least a subset of the plurality of portions of the first stimulation.