Driving behavior simulator of lane changing using user-designed interface

Driving simulators are used to analyze and validate the driver's behavior. These simulators are an essential tool in the research of human factor related to car driving. Advantages of using a driving simulator are safety (there are no traffic accidents during driving) and simple collecting of data related to the driver's behavior. The goal of this paper is development of an interactive driving simulator capable of simulating and testing driver's behavior based on lane changing with selected traffic conditions. The overall system is controlled and supervised using the Finite State Machine modeling approach realized in C# programming language, data input/output processing is implemented using the microcontroller user-based interface as well as the virtual driving scenarios is created using Microsoft XNA platform. The usage of video game technology is a central design principle of virtual driving scenarios. The concept of driver physical reaction testing using the software simulator based on configurable parameters is presented too.