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  • Open Access
622 Views
16 Pages

29 May 2026

Background: Fatigued driving is a key contributing factor to major traffic accidents. Existing detection technologies suffer from issues such as delayed identification, high error rates, and a lack of quantified causal relationships between physiolog...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Sensor Fusion for Autonomous Vehicles and Driver Assistance Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,434 Views
10 Pages

Classification of Driving Fatigue in High-Altitude Areas

  • Zhihao Duan,
  • Jinliang Xu,
  • Han Ru and
  • Menghui Li

4 February 2019

Driving fatigue is one of the main causes of traffic accidents. Thus, to prevent traffic accidents and ensure traffic safety, the properties of driving fatigue at the wheel must be determined. The Qinghai–Tibet Plateau in China is known for its...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,829 Views
23 Pages

Research on Driving Fatigue Assessment Based on Physiological and Behavioral Data

  • Ge Zhang,
  • Zhangyu Song,
  • Xiu-Li Li,
  • Wenqing Li and
  • Kuai Liang

29 August 2025

Driving fatigue is a crucial factor affecting road traffic safety. Accurately assessing the driver’s fatigue status is critical for accident prevention. This paper explores the assessment methods of driving fatigue under different conditions ba...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Techniques and Applications of Multimodal Data Fusion)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,371 Views
14 Pages

9 April 2024

Fatigued driving threatens the safety of people’s lives and property. Scent countermeasures offer minimal disruption and high efficacy, making them a promising approach. The aim of this study was to explore the application of scent countermeasu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biomedical Signal Processing and Health Monitoring Based on Sensors)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,760 Views
7 Pages

Time-Dependent Adaptations of Brain Networks in Driving Fatigue

  • Olympia Giannakopoulou,
  • Ioannis Kakkos,
  • Georgios N. Dimitrakopoulos,
  • Yu Sun,
  • George K. Matsopoulos and
  • Dimitrios D. Koutsouris

Driving with fatigue is a major contributor to traffic accidents and is closely linked to central nervous system functions. To investigate the evolution of brain dynamics during simulated driving under different EEG rhythms, we conducted an experimen...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of Advances in Biomedical Sciences, Engineering and Technology (ABSET) Conference)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,886 Views
16 Pages

Individual Variability in Brain Connectivity Patterns and Driving-Fatigue Dynamics

  • Olympia Giannakopoulou,
  • Ioannis Kakkos,
  • Georgios N. Dimitrakopoulos,
  • Marilena Tarousi,
  • Yu Sun,
  • Anastasios Bezerianos,
  • Dimitrios D. Koutsouris and
  • George K. Matsopoulos

16 June 2024

Mental fatigue during driving poses significant risks to road safety, necessitating accurate assessment methods to mitigate potential hazards. This study explores the impact of individual variability in brain networks on driving fatigue assessment, h...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors for Wearable Medical Devices and Rehabilitation Treatments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,472 Views
15 Pages

16 January 2023

Driver fatigue can be further categorized into passive fatigue and active fatigue based on the task-induced fatigue perspective, with its categorization necessary from a theoretical basis and practical needs. Passive fatigue is caused by mental under...

(This article belongs to the Section Transportation and Future Mobility)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
4,558 Views
16 Pages

Driving Fatigue Onset and Visual Attention: An Electroencephalography-Driven Analysis of Ocular Behavior in a Driving Simulation Task

  • Andrea Giorgi,
  • Gianluca Borghini,
  • Francesca Colaiuda,
  • Stefano Menicocci,
  • Vincenzo Ronca,
  • Alessia Vozzi,
  • Dario Rossi,
  • Pietro Aricò,
  • Rossella Capotorto and
  • Gianluca Di Flumeri
  • + 6 authors

13 November 2024

Attentional deficits have tragic consequences on road safety. These deficits are not solely caused by distraction, since they can also arise from other mental impairments such as, most frequently, mental fatigue. Fatigue is among the most prevalent i...

(This article belongs to the Section Experimental and Clinical Neurosciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
7,349 Views
17 Pages

Modelling the Relationship between the Nature of Work Factors and Driving Performance Mediating by Role of Fatigue

  • Al-Baraa Abdulrahman Al-Mekhlafi,
  • Ahmad Shahrul Nizam Isha,
  • Nicholas Chileshe,
  • Mohammed Abdulrab,
  • Anwar Ameen Hezam Saeed and
  • Ahmed Farouk Kineber

Driving fatigue is a serious issue for the transportation sector, decreasing the driver’s performance and increasing accident risk. This study aims to investigate how fatigue mediates the relationship between the nature of work factors and driving pe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Driving Behaviors and Road Safety)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,455 Views
16 Pages

How to Counteract Driver Fatigue during Conditional Automated Driving—A Systematic Review

  • Alexandra Loew,
  • Christina Kurpiers,
  • Martin Götze,
  • Sven Nitsche and
  • Klaus Bengler

This paper summarizes the research on countermeasures against driver fatigue based on a comprehensive systematic literature review. Driver fatigue, induced by task monotony during conditional automated driving (CAD, SAE Level 3), can increase the ris...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Issues in Transport and Mobility)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,621 Views
26 Pages

17 June 2025

With the rapid development of intelligent transportation systems, voice assistants are increasingly integrated into driving environments, providing an effective means to mitigate the risks of fatigued driving. This study explored drivers’ inter...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human–Vehicle Interactions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,634 Views
15 Pages

29 November 2024

This study proposes a capacitance-based fatigue driving recognition method. The proposed method encompasses four principal phases: signal acquisition, pre-processing, blink detection, and fatigue driving recognition. A measurement circuit based on th...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,904 Views
16 Pages

15 November 2019

Due to the influence of altitude change on a driver’s heart rate, it is difficult to estimate driving fatigue using heart rate variability (HRV) at a road segment with frequent and rapid altitude change. Accordingly, a novel method of driving f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advance in Sensors and Sensing Systems for Driving and Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,311 Views
19 Pages

Directed Brain Network Analysis for Fatigue Driving Based on EEG Source Signals

  • Yingmei Qin,
  • Ziyu Hu,
  • Yi Chen,
  • Jing Liu,
  • Lijie Jiang,
  • Yanqiu Che and
  • Chunxiao Han

9 August 2022

Fatigue driving is one of the major factors that leads to traffic accidents. Long-term monotonous driving can easily cause a decrease in the driver’s attention and vigilance, manifesting a fatigue effect. This paper proposes a means of revealin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Networks and Systems in Bioinformatics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,415 Views
16 Pages

Detection Model on Fatigue Driving Behaviors Based on the Operating Parameters of Freight Vehicles

  • Jianfeng Xi,
  • Shiqing Wang,
  • Tongqiang Ding,
  • Jian Tian,
  • Hui Shao and
  • Xinning Miao

2 August 2021

Whether in developing or developed countries, traffic accidents caused by freight vehicles are responsible for more than 10% of deaths of all traffic accidents. Fatigue driving is one of the main causes of freight vehicle accidents. Existing fatigue...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Risk Assessment in Traffic and Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,900 Views
20 Pages

Analysis of Neurophysiological Correlates of Mental Fatigue in Both Monotonous and Demanding Driving Conditions

  • Francesca Dello Iacono,
  • Luca Guinti,
  • Marianna Cecchetti,
  • Andrea Giorgi,
  • Dario Rossi,
  • Vincenzo Ronca,
  • Alessia Vozzi,
  • Rossella Capotorto,
  • Fabio Babiloni and
  • Gianluca Di Flumeri
  • + 5 authors

16 September 2025

Background/Objectives: Mental fatigue during driving, whether passive (arising from monotony) or active (caused by cognitive overload), is a critical factor for road safety. Despite the growing interest in monitoring techniques based on neurophysiolo...

(This article belongs to the Section Cognitive, Social and Affective Neuroscience)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,001 Views
18 Pages

Fatigue Driving Recognition Method Based on Multi-Scale Facial Landmark Detector

  • Weichu Xiao,
  • Hongli Liu,
  • Ziji Ma,
  • Weihong Chen,
  • Changliang Sun and
  • Bo Shi

9 December 2022

Fatigue driving behavior recognition in all-weather real driving environments is a challenging task. Accurate recognition of fatigue driving behavior is helpful to improve traffic safety. The facial landmark detector is crucial to fatigue driving rec...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,027 Views
22 Pages

Driver fatigue represents a significant peril to global traffic safety, necessitating the advancement of potent fatigue monitoring methodologies to bolster road safety. This research introduces a conditional generative adversarial network with a clas...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational Neuroscience, Neuroinformatics, and Neurocomputing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,384 Views
18 Pages

Fatigue Driving State Detection Based on Spatial Characteristics of EEG Signals

  • Wenwen Chang,
  • Wenchao Nie,
  • Renjie Lv,
  • Lei Zheng,
  • Jialei Lu and
  • Guanghui Yan

20 September 2024

Monitoring the driver’s physical and mental state based on wearable EEG acquisition equipment, especially the detection and early warning of fatigue, is a key issue in the research of the brain–computer interface in human–machine in...

(This article belongs to the Section Bioelectronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,449 Views
18 Pages

14 September 2021

The accurate detection and alleviation of driving fatigue are of great significance to traffic safety. In this study, we tried to apply the modified multi-scale entropy (MMSE) approach, based on variational mode decomposition (VMD), to driving fatigu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,837 Views
19 Pages

6 September 2022

Driving fatigue refers to a phenomenon in which a driver’s physiological and psychological functions become unbalanced after a long period of continuous driving, and their driving skills decline objectively. The hidden dangers of driving fatigu...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensory and Motor Neuroscience)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,436 Views
19 Pages

25 April 2025

Fatigue driving is one of the crucial factors causing traffic accidents. Most existing fatigue driving detection algorithms overlook individual driver characteristics, potentially leading to misjudgments. This article presents a novel detection algor...

(This article belongs to the Section Algorithms for Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,718 Views
15 Pages

Effects of a Motion Seat System on Driver’s Passive Task-Related Fatigue: An On-Road Driving Study

  • Seunghoon Lee,
  • Minjae Kim,
  • Hayoung Jung,
  • Dohoon Kwon,
  • Sunwoo Choi and
  • Heecheon You

8 May 2020

Passive task-related (TR) fatigue caused by monotonous driving can negatively affect driving safety by impairing driver alertness and performance. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a motion seat system on the driver’s passive TR...

(This article belongs to the Section Biosensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
124 Citations
9,619 Views
16 Pages

15 March 2018

In present work, the heart rate variability (HRV) characteristics, calculated by sample entropy (SampEn), were used to analyze the driving fatigue state at successive driving stages. Combined with the relative power spectrum ratio β/(θ + α), subjecti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
5,635 Views
16 Pages

1 April 2019

Fatigued driving is one of the major causes of traffic accidents. Frequent repetition of driving behavior for a long time may lead to driver fatigue, which is closely related to the central nervous system. In the present work, we designed a fatigue d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Theory and Complexity Science Approaches to Health Conditions and Cognitive Decline)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,323 Views
12 Pages

In recent years, the spread of wearable medical sensors has made it possible to easily measure biological signals such as pulse rate and body acceleration (BA), and from these biological signals, it is possible to evaluate the degree of biological st...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Internet of Things, Embedded Solutions, and Edge Intelligence for Smart Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
3,117 Views
11 Pages

2 November 2021

Safe driving plays a crucial role in public health, and driver fatigue causes a large proportion of crashes in road driving. Hence, this paper presents the development of an efficient system to determine whether a driver is fatigued during real drivi...

(This article belongs to the Section Transportation and Future Mobility)
  • Article
  • Open Access
791 Views
26 Pages

Comparative Prefrontal Multimodal Physiological Signatures Under Active- and Passive-Fatigue-Inducing Simulated Driving Paradigms

  • Feiyang Zhang,
  • Dequan Fang,
  • Shiji Yuan,
  • Huaizhi Tang,
  • Xiao Liang,
  • Shuai Wang,
  • Kang Ma,
  • Dezhi Zheng and
  • Shangchun Fan

Background/Objectives: Mental fatigue during driving can arise under different task conditions and typically progresses from mild to severe states. Active fatigue is usually linked to cognitively demanding driving, whereas passive fatigue is associat...

(This article belongs to the Section Cognitive, Social and Affective Neuroscience)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,619 Views
20 Pages

Driving Fatigue Detection Based on the Combination of Multi-Branch 3D-CNN and Attention Mechanism

  • Wenbin Xiang,
  • Xuncheng Wu,
  • Chuanchang Li,
  • Weiwei Zhang and
  • Feiyang Li

6 May 2022

Fatigue driving is one of the main causes of traffic accidents today. In this study, a fatigue driving detection system based on a 3D convolutional neural network combined with a channel attention mechanism (Squeeze-and-Excitation module) is proposed...

(This article belongs to the Topic Applied Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,152 Views
18 Pages

8 November 2019

Rapid and accurate detection of driver fatigue is of great significance to improve traffic safety. In the present work, we propose the man-machine response mode (MRM) to relieve driver fatigue caused by long-term driving. In this paper, the character...

(This article belongs to the Section Biosensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,829 Views
15 Pages

19 January 2024

Fatigue driving is a serious threat to road safety, which is why accurately identifying fatigue driving behavior and warning drivers in time are of great significance in improving traffic safety. However, accurately recognizing fatigue driving is sti...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,587 Views
12 Pages

30 August 2022

Driver fatigue and distracted driving are the two most common causes of major accidents. Thus, the on-board monitoring of driving behaviors is key in the development of intelligent vehicles. In this paper, we propose an approach which detects driver...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,763 Views
28 Pages

The detection and evaluation of fatigue levels in drivers play a crucial role in reducing traffic accidents and improving the overall quality of life. However, existing studies in this domain often focus on fatigue detection alone, with limited resea...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
834 Views
42 Pages

22 March 2026

Driving simulators offer a safe and controlled way to study fatigue in truck drivers, but variation in scenario design and incomplete reporting limit reproducibility and cross-study comparison. This systematic review synthesized scenario parameters u...

(This article belongs to the Section Transportation and Future Mobility)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,544 Views
16 Pages

22 September 2023

Fatigue and sleepiness are complex bodily states associated with monotony as well as physical and cognitive impairment, accidents, injury, and illness. Moreover, these states are often characteristic of professional driving. However, most existing wo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,605 Views
19 Pages

Driving Fatigue Detection with Three Non-Hair-Bearing EEG Channels and Modified Transformer Model

  • Jie Wang,
  • Yanting Xu,
  • Jinghong Tian,
  • Huayun Li,
  • Weidong Jiao,
  • Yu Sun and
  • Gang Li

24 November 2022

Driving fatigue is the main cause of traffic accidents, which seriously affects people’s life and property safety. Many researchers have applied electroencephalogram (EEG) signals for driving fatigue detection to reduce negative effects. The ma...

(This article belongs to the Section Entropy and Biology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
766 Views
30 Pages

Distracted and fatigue-related driving behaviors are major causes of road traffic accidents, creating an urgent need for reliable driver monitoring systems. Vision-based detection methods have garnered widespread attention due to their low cost of de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
988 Views
28 Pages

28 November 2025

Fatigue driving of freight vehicles is a major threat to transport safety, often causing heavy casualties and property losses. However, existing studies only focus on superficial correlations between fatigue driving and influencing factors, failing t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Transportation Systems for Sustainable Transportation Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,421 Views
28 Pages

8 September 2024

Fatigued driving is a problem that every driver will face, and traffic accidents caused by drowsy driving often occur involuntarily. If there is a fatigue detection and warning system, it is generally believed that the occurrence of some incidents ca...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Algorithms for Feature Selection (2nd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
305 Views
19 Pages

11 September 2026

In SAE Level 3 automated driving, drivers are required to supervise vehicle operation and respond to overtaking requests. Owing to task monotony and insufficient workload, drivers are prone to passive fatigue, which may impair vigilance and safety. T...

(This article belongs to the Section Transportation and Future Mobility)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,856 Views
21 Pages

14 December 2024

With the advancement of autonomous driving technology, especially the growing adoption of SAE Level 3 and above systems, drivers are transitioning from active controllers to supervisors who must take over in emergencies. For hearing-impaired drivers...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Development and Application in Autonomous Driving System for Better Mobility)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,504 Views
16 Pages

13 September 2018

In view of the nonlinear characteristics of electroencephalography (EEG) signals collected in the driving fatigue state recognition research and the issue that the recognition accuracy of the driving fatigue state recognition method based on EEG is s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evaluation of Systems’ Irregularity and Complexity: Sample Entropy, Its Derivatives, and Their Applications across Scales and Disciplines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,974 Views
25 Pages

30 March 2023

More than 1.3 million people are killed in traffic accidents annually. Road traffic accidents are mostly caused by human error. Therefore, an accurate driving fatigue detection system is required for drivers. Most driving fatigue detection studies co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Detection and Modelling of Biosignals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,892 Views
23 Pages

18 September 2015

To improve the effectiveness and robustness of fatigue driving recognition, a self-adaptive dynamic recognition model is proposed that incorporates information from multiple sources and involves two sequential levels of fusion, constructed at the fe...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,330 Views
24 Pages

1 November 2025

Driving fatigue poses a serious threat to road safety. To detect fatigue accurately and thereby improve vehicle safety, this paper proposes a novel semi-dry electrode with the ability to automatically replenish the conductive fluid for monitoring dri...

(This article belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,664 Views
18 Pages

22 June 2022

Fatigue driving has always received a lot of attention, but few studies have focused on the fact that human fatigue is a cumulative process over time, and there are no models available to reflect this phenomenon. Furthermore, the problem of incorrect...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence Methods for Smart Cities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,092 Views
25 Pages

A Feature Fusion Method for Driving Fatigue of Shield Machine Drivers Based on Multiple Physiological Signals and Auto-Encoder

  • Kun Liu,
  • Guoqi Feng,
  • Xingyu Jiang,
  • Wenpeng Zhao,
  • Zhiqiang Tian,
  • Rizheng Zhao and
  • Kaihang Bi

12 June 2023

The driving fatigue state of shield machine drivers directly affects the safe operation and tunneling efficiency of shield machines during metro construction. To cope with the problem that it is challenging to simulate the working conditions and oper...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Latest Research on Safety Improvements for Sustainable Transportation Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
7,500 Views
18 Pages

11 October 2023

A variety of technologies that could enhance driving safety are being actively explored, with the aim of reducing traffic accidents by accurately recognizing the driver’s state. In this field, three mainstream detection methods have been widely...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced-Sensors-Based Emotion Sensing and Recognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
457 Views
26 Pages

26 May 2026

Fatigue driving causes 20–30% of global traffic accidents. To address limitations in feature fusion and real-time performance, this study proposes an improved You Only Look Once version 8 (YOLOv8)-Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) model with symmet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,625 Views
17 Pages

Classification of Fatigued and Drunk Driving Based on Decision Tree Methods: A Simulator Study

  • Ying Yao,
  • Xiaohua Zhao,
  • Hongji Du,
  • Yunlong Zhang,
  • Guohui Zhang and
  • Jian Rong

It is a commonly known fact that both alcohol and fatigue impair driving performance. Therefore, the identification of fatigue and drinking status is very important. In this study, each of the 22 participants finished five driving tests in total. The...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Promotion of Big Data and Intelligent Transportation to Traffic Safety and Environment)

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