CNN-LSTM Driving Style Classification Model Based on Driver Operation Time Series Data

This paper aims to establish a driving style recognition method that is highly accurate, fast and generalizable, considering the lack of data types in driving style classification task and the low recognition accuracy of widely used unsupervised clustering algorithms and single convolutional neural network methods. First, we propose a method to collect the information on driver’s operation time sequence in view of the imperfect driving data, and then extract the driver’s style features through convolutional neural network. Then, for the collected temporal data, the Long Short Term Memory networks (LSTM) module is added to encode and transform the driving features, to achieve the driving style classification. The results show that the accuracy of driving style recognition reaches over 93%, while the speed is improved significantly.