ARTIFICIAL PASSENGER

A
A SLEEP
SLEEP PREVENTION
PREVENTION DIALOGUE
DIALOGUE BASED
BASED CAR
CAR SYSTEM
SYSTEM

PREPARED
BY
K.VASANTHI

CONTENTS

Introduction
Background of the invention
Why such systems?
Architecture
Devices used
Working Components
Applications
Advantages and Disadvantages
Future applications
Conclusion

INTRODUCTION

What is an ARTIFICIAL PASSENGER?

The AP is an artificial intelligence-based companion
that will be resident in software and chips embedded
in the automobile dashboard.
What does it do?
Detects alarm conditions through sensors.
Broadcasts pre-stored voice messages over the
speakers.
Captures images of the driver.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

IBM(International Business Machines Corporation ,

Newyork ) has developed a software that holds the
conversation with driver to determine whether the
driver can respond alertly enough , called ARTIFICIAL
PASSENGER.
The name was firstly suggested in an article in new
scientist magazine.
This was designed to make solo journey safer and
more bearable.

WHY SUCH SYSTEMS?

According to a national survey in UK and USA,it is
observed that the driver fatigue annually causes,
I.
1,00,000 crashes
II.
15000 deaths
III. 71000 injuries which causes annual cost of $12.5
billions.

Majority of off-road accidents observed were

preceeded by eye closure of half and even 2-3
seconds where the normal human eye blinks at
0.2-0.3 seconds.

ARCHITECTUE

STRUCTURE

DEVICES USED

The main devices that are used in this artificial

passenger are:-

Eye tracker or Camera.

Voice recogniser or speech recognizer.

Touch Sensors.

WORKING COMPONENTS

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There are some of the components which supports

for the working of the system:
Automatic Speech Recognizer(ASR)
Natural Language Processor(NLP)
Driver analyzer
Conversational Planner(CP)
Alarm
Microphone
Camera

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION(ASR)

There are two ASRs used in the system:

First one is Speaker Independent and used

for decoding voice signals of the driver.

Second one operates with voice car media

and decodes tapes, audio book, telephone
mails etc.

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSOR(NLP)

Processes the decoded signals of textual data

provided from the ASR.
Identifies related meanings from the contents of the
decoded messages.
Produces variant of responses.
This output goes to the driver analyzer as an input.

DRIVER ANALYZER

Receives the textual data and voice data.

Measures the time response using a clock.
Analysis is both subjective and objective.
Time responses, conclusions about drivers alertness
will output to the conversational planner.

CONVERSATIONAL PLANNER(CP)
It is the heart of the system.
Instructs the language generator to produce the
response.
It checks the driver is in perfect condition or not.
If not it will starts conversation with passenger
It holds a profile, including details of driver
interests and profession.

ALARM

If the CP(conversational planner) receives

information that the driver is about to fall asleep an
alarm system is activated.

MICROPHONE

For picking up the words and separate them by some

internally used software for the conversation.

CAMERA

This will track the lip movements of the driver.

Used for the improvement for the accuracy of the

speech recognition.

ADVATAGES AND DISADVANTAGES

ADVANTAGES:

1.It is broadly used to prevent accident.

2.It establishes interface with other drivers very easily.
3.If the driver gets a heart attack or he is drunk it will
send signals to vehicles nearby about this so driver
there become alert.

ADVANTAGES AND
DISADVANTAGES(CONTD)

DISADVATAGES:

1.It is costly.
2.It can only be installed to high profiled cars.

APPLICATIONS
It prevents the driver, falling asleep during long and solo
trip.
In any problem it alerts the vehicles near by this, so the
driver there become alert.
Opens and closes the doors and windows of the car
automatically.
It is also used for the entertainment.
This system can also be used in other situations such as:
I. Security guard
II. Operators at nuclear plants
III. Pilots of airplane

FUTURE APPLICATION

Will provide us with a shortest-time routing based on

road conditions changing because of weather and
traffic, information of about the cars on the route,
destination requirement(as flight has been delayed).

CONCLUSION

Successful implementation of artificial passenger

would allow to use various services in car like
reading e-mails , navigation , downloading music
files,voice games without compromising a driver
safety.

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