Efficient normalization for quantitative evaluation of the driving behavior using a gated auto-encoder

Driving behavior normalization is important for a fair evaluation of the driving style.The longitudinal control of a vehicle is investigated in this study.The normalization task can be considered as mapping of the driving behavior in a different environment to the uniform condition.Unlike the model-based approach as in previous work,where a necessary driver model is employed to conduct the driving cycle test,the approach we propose directly normalizes the driving behavior using an autoencoder(AE)when following a standard speed profile.To ensure a positive correlation between the vehicle speed and driving behavior,a gate constraint is imposed in between the encoder and decoder to form a gated AE(gAE).This approach is model-free and efficient.The proposed approach is tested for consistency with the model-based approach and for its applications to quantitative evaluation of the driving behavior and fuel consumption analysis.Simulations are conducted to verify the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.