Detection and analysis of driver fatigue stages with eeg signals

Abstract

Today, many people die in traffic accidents. Sleeplessness and fatigue of drivers are shown as the most important cause of traffic accidents. For this reason, research on driver performance analysis is of great importance. In this study, a system is designed to analyze driver fatigue using electroencephalography (EEG) data. As the data set, the EEG signals from sustained-attention driving task prepared by National Chiao Tung University have been used. The data set is divided into four classes to determine the driver's fatigue times and level. In order to determine the frequency ranges that occur during driver fatigue phases, EEG signals are filtered. Principal Component Analysis method has been used to reduce the size of the features matrix. With the Divide and Conquer algorithm, all combinations in which the four classes will be separated best are determined and classification has been done at each step using sub-classifiers. As sub-classifiers, k-Nearest Neighborhood, Support Vector Machines and Linear Discrimination Analysis algorithms are used. As a result of the study, the average classification successes are 87.9% for the k-Nearest Neighborhood algorithm, 88.5% for the Support Vector Machines algorithm and 81.6% for Linear Discrimination Analysis. The highest classification success has been achieved as 93.2% with the Support Vector Machines classifier, between 67.5-90 min. of driving at the 4th grade fatigue level.