Spherical optical flow in automatically controlled vehicle while cornering

Recently, one problem with the development of a vehicle control system is how to reduce the feeling of strangeness. Various companies develop vehicle control systems for a self-driving vehicle. However, a human feels strangeness while cornering. To solve this problem, we focus on the human’s perceptual system for the cornering control, and propose the visual information that is represented by the gaze center and optical flow using a spherical image. In previous research, we found that the optical flow radiates outward from the gaze center in the simulation. In this paper, we discuss the contiguous trend of the optical flow around to gaze center using actual data while cornering.