Artificial Passenger

What is artificial passenger

• A sleep prevention dialogue based car system.

• Design to make long solo journey more enjoyable andsafer.

• Prevent driver’s drowsiness via the speech interactivity

What does it do?

• Engage in conversation with driver related to his interest.

• Also amuse the driver with the interactive games or jokes.

• More stimulating content for driver who appears to be fatigued.

Components Used

• Automatic speech recognition.(ASR)

• Natural language processor.(NLP)

• Driver analyzer.

• Conversational planner

• Alarm.

• External service provider

Working

• Camera rigged on to the steering wheel will monitor the eye closure frequency.

• If frequency exceed the threshold frequency , artificial passenger will be activated.

• The system has a conversation planner that holds a profile of you, including details of your interests and profession.

• A microphone picks up your answer and breaks it down into separate words with speech-recognition software.

• A camera built into the dashboard also tracks your lip movements to improve the accuracy of speech recognition.

• A voice analyzer then looks for signs of tiredness by checking to see if the answer matches your profile. Slow responses and lack of attention are signs of fatigue.

• If you reply quickly and clearly, the system judges you to be alert and tells the conversation planner to continue the line of questioning.

• If your response is slow or doesn’t make sense, the voice analyzer assumes you are dropping off and acts to get your attention.

• If driver displays signs of fatigue, the artificial passenger might be programmed to open all the windows, sound a buzzer, increase background music volume, or even spray the driver with ice water.

Conclusion

Artificial passenger is a great technology to have in our vehicles. It is a great way to prevent accident by alerting the driver at the right time. Work should be done to make it more precise.