» Early warning driver sleepiness

The basis for monitoring and predicting the status of sleepiness is formed by the on-line measurement of several bio-responses of the driver's body to his 'struggle to stay awake'. This struggle sparks of clear and detectable changes in some of his bio-responses.
The developed monitor is not only capable of monitoring driver sleepiness in real-time. It becomes possible to predict performance decreasing levels of driver sleepiness up to 5 minutes on beforehand.

This research is conducted in close collaboration with the department of Cognitive and Physiological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel .