Index Terms — Safety on automotive, Sensors, Haptics,

Abstract- This paper deals with the methodology of using haptics and biorobotics principles, together with creating a new intelligent system, to improve the safety in automotive. Many projects in European Union programs are devoted to the increase of safety in automotive, in order to reduce deaths and accidents down to 50 % in the next few years. The project here presented PSYCAR aims at a new driving system, with small modifications, where the wheel and the buttons are inserted in an architecture of intelligent sensors, able to monitor the psychophysical state of the driver, in order to avoid accidents due to sleep attacks and assumption of alcohol or drugs. All the indications will come from the wheel, where the hands and the finger actuate a great part of the control of the car. Main goal of research is to define the right parameters for driver’s psycho-physical status monitoring inside the “Car System”. The results on driver conditions will be connected with the mechanical parameters of the car, the environmental conditions. By use of key cards defining the driver personal condition, signal data will be inserted in a new architecture, where neural networks and fuzzy logic represent the tool to apply multivariate statistics. The sensors network has a reference centre the steering wheel, where the driver applies his hands and fingers: their actions are the “haptic intelligence ” of the driver, which feels the motion and the safety parameters with the support of the sensors embedded in the wheel and in the car itself