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. 2024 Oct 18;10(20):e39592. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e39592

Table 4.

Motion sensors.

Ref Year Experimental
Setup
Number of Subjects Driving Duration Type of Sensors Physical
Measurand
Detection Algorithm Problem Solved Limitations
[80] 2024 Actual driving 9 Subjects Total of 73 trips (0.5–10 h each trip) wristbands,
vehicle mounted
equipment,
and trip logs
Fatigue Attention-BiLSTM The authors developed a fatigue detection technique that incorporates non-visual features from customized wristbands, vehicle-mounted devices, and trip logs. This strategy solves the drawbacks of conventional methods that rely mainly on visual and physiological aspects, which can be obtrusive and less trustworthy. The method for assessing feature relevance has inherent limitations. Certain qualities may only be beneficial when paired with others, resulting in an underestimate of their individual importance. This could have an impact on our general understanding of which traits are most important for detecting fatigue.
[81] 2022 Simulator 15 Subjects 1 h Motion
Capture
Sensor the head pos
Fatigue and drowsiness reLU-BiLSTMs The study compared the performance of separate day and night models to a combined model and found that the models performed similarly. This finding implies that separate models for distinct driving conditions (daytime vs. midnight) can be useful for fatigue identification. One important drawback is that the same dataset was used to construct the sleepiness detection algorithm and evaluate its performance. This dual use can produce biased results that do not accurately reflect the model's performance in real-world circumstances.
[82] 2021 Actual and simulated driving 5 subjects microphones
and speakers
of smartphones
Drowsiness LSTM networks This work developed a drowsy driving detection system using only the embedded audio components (microphone and speaker) on cellphones. To identify tiredness in real time, the system recognized specific Doppler shift patterns induced by typical drowsy behaviors such as nodding, yawning, and aberrant steering wheel motion. The reliance on smartphone audio devices to detect Doppler shifts may be susceptible to background noise, changes in driving situations, and smartphone location within the vehicle, potentially impacting detection accuracy.
[83] 2021 Simulator 40 subjects impulsive
radio
ultrawideband (IR-UWB) radar
Drowsiness Different Machine learning
and Multilayer
Perceptron
The study proposed a non-invasive device for detecting driver drowsiness based on Impulse Radio Ultra-Wideband (IR-UWB) radar technology. This technology recorded chest movements to determine breathing rates, allowing for precise sleepiness detection. Using Impulse Radio Ultra-Wideband (IR-UWB) radar, required precise location and environmental conditions. Furthermore, major driving movements or body position changes that alter radar signal quality may jeopardize the system's performance.
[84] 2019 Actual driving 8 subjects Steering wheel angle
sensor (SWA)
Fatigue Fuzzy recurrent neural network
model (RNN)
The author developed a fuzzy recurrent neural network (FRNN) model that detects driver weariness using steering-wheel angle (SWA) data. This model captured the nonlinear properties and anomalies in SWA time series data under real-world driving settings. The limitations of this work include the difficulties associated with relying simply on steering-wheel angle (SWA) data, which can be influenced by different external factors such as road conditions, driver habits, and vehicle dynamics, potentially reducing the accuracy of fatigue detection.