16.400: Human Factors Engineering

Driving Simulator Lab Home Page

The submitted PDE files are posted.

The data from the experiment are posted.

Questions & Answers page is posted.

"auto_sim.pdf" has replaced "auto_sim.rtf". I apologize those of you who had trouble reading .rtf files.

The group list is posted.

The following files are provided to help you drive through this lab excercise.

1) auto_sim.pdf

This is the documentation of the lab excercise. It is a bit long, but hopefully will answer *most* of your questions.
Due to the size of class, some of the things in the document will have to be changed. Please check this page for updates.

2) sample_roadway.pde

This is the sample roadway model file. It contains concise version of script documentations describing commands and their parameters. It should be a good basis for your own roadway model.

3) sample_output.dat

This is the actual data file from last year's lab. You can see what you get from the simulator after driving the roadways. Note it is somewhat big (467kBytes and 9962 lines). Think early on about how to get what you want from this file.

4) retrieve_data_block.m

This is a MATLAB function written for you to retrive a data block from a output data file. The usage is described in auto_sim.pdf and the script file itself as comments. In short...
>> retrieve_data_block('datafile.dat', 'data_block_title', 'outputfile.txt')
Feel free to modify this script. If you come up with a useful modification please share it with others by emailing it to me.

5) STISIM Drive Documentation

These are the help files that describes the STISIM Drive Simulator in detail. You don't have to read them all to do this lab, but they are useful resources as references. SDL commands page has detailed information on all of the PDE commands.

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