Intelligent Automation, Inc. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: N171-003

Description

Ground tactical vehicle mishaps resulted in damaged or destroyed government property, huge cost in medical treatment, deaths, and permanent disabilities of the personnel involved. Efficient monitoring operators driving skill and performance on ground tactical vehicles becomes critical to the safety and effectiveness of military vehicle training and operations. We propose to leverage miniature Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) electronics devices such as a Controller Area Network (CAN) data logger/streamer and a low cost Android tablet/smartphone with GPS and accelerometer sensors, to record the naturalistic driving data during the trip, report the data to a computer server, and automatically detect critical incident events or risky driving behaviors for driver performance assessment. This system will enable a simple point and click query or filtering by the Motor Transport Officer or Commander to identify fully qualified or deficient drivers for mission operation or training purpose. Phase I program is to demonstrate the feasibility of the E-TRIP approach through laboratory and vehicle tests. In Phase II, we will develop the prototype E-TRIP system, and validating the system performance through large scale fielded vehicle tests.