METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING THE DRIVING STYLE OF A DRIVER OF A LAND VEHICLE, AND CORRESPONDING APPARATUS

Described herein is a method for recognizing the driving style of a driver of a land vehicle, of the type that envisages acquiring (110) information (DI) on the dynamics of the vehicle from sensors and calculating, as a function of said information on the dynamics of the vehicle, a class of membership of the driving style () of the driver.The method comprises:- analysing said information (DI) on the dynamics of the vehicle in order to identify start of an event of recognition of a manoeuvreand to start (cmd) a procedure of recognition (30) of the event that comprises:- reconstructing (140) a manoeuvreperformed by the driver by computing components of displacement of the vehicle ((),()) as a function of the information on the dynamics of the vehicle (DI) arranged in a displacement time series () that represents a reconstruction of said manoeuvre ()- identifying (140) the manoeuvre performed (), by comparing said displacement time series () with models (tp) of time series corresponding to pre-determined manoeuvres stored in a database, in particular by applying a Dynamic-Time-Warping procedure;- defining (210) regions in a cartesian plane having as axes a lateral acceleration () and a longitudinal acceleration (), in particular manifolds (S1, S2, S3);- computing (220) cost functionals () for the three driving styles, which calculate a distance between points defined by values of acceleration in said cartesian plane of said manoeuvre () and the boundary of each of the three manifolds (S1, S2, S3); and- recognising (230) the driving style (), on the basis of said cost functionals.