Instrumented vehicle facility

Student Katie Plant using the controls of an instrumented vehicle

Student behind the wheel of an instrumented vehicle

A white car parked outside of a university building

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About the Instrumented vehicle facility

Our on-road instrumented vehicle can be used on its own for naturalistic studies of driving and driver behaviour. It can also be used in combination with other equipment for behavioural and cognitive driving research.

This includes:

head-mounted eye tracking equipment
galvanic skin response measurements
heart rate monitors
other physiological measurement devices

This research can be focussed on:

the driver
the physical environment they navigate
other road users they interact with

Technical specification

The Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid is equipped with:

a Racelogic Video VBOX Pro system that combines 32 CAN data input channels with four high-definition video feeds
two microphones
a GPS antenna

The system records data at 20Hz and gives:

a velocity accuracy of 0.1Km/h
acceleration accuracy of 0.5%
distance accuracy of <0.05 % or <50cm per Km

Expert team

Dr Rich McIlroy EngD, C.ErgHF, C.Psychol, FHEA

Senior Research Fellow in MaaS

Connect with Rich

Email: r.mcilroy@soton.ac.uk

Dr Anil Madhusudhanan

Lecturer in Future Mobility Systems

Connect with Anil

Email: anil@soton.ac.uk

Professor Tom Cherrett

Head of Department

Research interests

Understanding and improving the distribution of goods and the management of freight vehicles in urban areas, including the supply of goods to hospitals and the use of consolidation centres;
How optimisation techniques can be used to improve system efficiency and in what ways Intelligent Transport Systems (smart tagging of assets and the use of smartphones) can improve operating efficiency;
Approaches to more effectively collect and manage the movement of waste in terms of both household domestic waste collection strategies, Household Waste Recycling Centre (HWRC) management and joint domestic/commercial waste collection strategies. He has worked on a number of research projects in these specific areas: (Department for Transport grant PPAD 9/142/034, ‘Optimising vehicles undertaking waste collections' GR/S79626/01, SUE project 55 ‘Transport and Logistics'; EP/D043328/1, ‘Green Logistics'.

Connect with Tom

Email: t.j.cherrett@soton.ac.uk