Hi, I’m Anna! At Robotec.ai I work as a Senior Scientist, currently having 5+ years of expertise in driver state psychophysiology research. With a background in Cognitive Science, but also Neuroinformatics, I was given the opportunity to dive into various realms of driver behavior and psychophysiology analysis for Driver Monitoring Systems’ development, including simulator, test track, and natural driving studies (NDS). My primary focus lies in investigating driver drowsiness, although driver distraction and stress are also the topics I am curious about. Yet I am particularly fascinated by the intricate interactions between behavior, subjective assessment, and physiological metrics, with a keen interest in sleepiness detection. As I love open-source almost as much as I love doing research, I led the development of our first book “The Robotec.ai Handbook on Driver Stress Detection,” which is a free resource with an overview and guidelines in the field.

The Pop in Your Job: “Gives me a chance to better understand some complex interplays in human psychophysiology”

Robotec is a deep tech company that offers advanced DMS consultancy and support, including DMS testing and validation, data post-processing and interpretation, and market-specific regulatory compliance. Our teams of interdisciplinary experts offer assistance in full-driver state detection, including such challenging states as drowsiness, stress, distraction, and drunk driving. They support clients in preparing assumptions for the study to avoid trash-in and trash-out situations and optimize costs. Our services include full support at every stage of the study and detailed documentation aligned with the latest regulations. We conduct our studies in laboratories equipped with cutting-edge driving simulators and collect our data on high-end test tracks and roads. It is our mission to support automotive companies in the safe transfer of control in automated driving. DMS services are not the only part of our identity: we are also a human-centered robotics company that develops scalable, ROS 2-powered simulation platforms for robotics applications.