Data collection with "UYANIK": too much pain; but gains are coming
H. Abut, Aytül Erçi̇l, Hakan Erdoğan, Baran Çürüklü, Hakkı Can Koman, Fatih Taş, Ali Özgür Argunşah, Serhan Coşar, Batu Akan, Harun Karabalkan, Emre Cökelek, Rahmi Fıçıcı, Volkan Sezer, Serhan Danış, Mehmet Karaca, Mehmet Abbak, Mustafa Gökhan Uzunbaş, Kayhan Eritmen, Çağlar Kalaycıoğlu, Mümin İmamoğlu · Sabanci University · 2007
In this paper, we present data collection activities and preliminary research findings from the real-world database collected with “UYANIK,” a passenger car instrumented with various sensors, CAN-Bus data logger, cameras, microphones, data acquisitions systems, computers, and support systems. Within the shared frameworks of DriveSafe Consortium (Turkey) and the NEDO (Japan) International Collaborative Research on Driving Behavior Signal Processing, close to 9 Terabytes of driver behavior, vehicular, and road data has been collected from more than 50 drivers on a 25 km route consisting of both city roads and highway in Istanbul, Turkey. Challenge of collecting data in a metropolis with around 12 million people, famous with extremely limited infrastructure yet driving behavior defying all rules and regulations bordering madness could not be “PAINLESS.” Both the experience gained and the preliminary results from still on-going studies using the database are very encouraging and give comfort.