Abstract:
One of the main aims of the recent research on brake-by-wire systems is to
decrease mechanical components. In this paper, we propose replacing the
brake pedal with a driving wheel that is fully covered by pressure braking
batch sensors. The new mechanism for braking translates pressure exerted
through the driver’s hands on the driving wheel to a corresponding electrical
signal. A proposed design for the pressure braking batch (PBB) is made out
of a mesh of conducting threads separated by a resistive sheet. To the best of
our knowledge, this idea has not been raised before in other research papers.
Different people have different muscle strengths and so the problem of
identifying the intention of the user when pressing the PBB is tackled. For this
aim, a new dataset of its kind is created by several volunteers. From each
volunteer, age, gender, body mass index (BMI), and maximum pressure
exerted on the driving wheel are collected. Using Weka software, the detection
accuracy is calculated for a new volunteer to know the intention of his/her
pressure on PBB. Among the three algorithms tried, the regression tree gives
the best results in predicting the class of the pressure exerted by the volunteers
