Intelligent occupant protection systems

Galer, Margaret; Jones, Simon

Affiliations

¹University of Technology, Loughborough, United Kingdom

Abstract

Technology developments in sensors and smart signal processing/intelligent systems have increased our capabilities for developing advanced safety systems for occupant protection in crashes. The many developments in sensor technology for primary safety such as proper vehicle control and collision avoidance provide an underlying technology base that can be exploited for enhancing secondary safety systems that can mitigate the frequency and severity of injuries when a crash occurs.

Work at Loughborough University of Technology has been investigating a range of tachnologies for:

Predicting the likelihood, force and direction of an impact and responding appropriately
Enhancing secondary safety system performance by, for example, tailoring protection to the characteristics of the occupants, the vehicle and the crash.

This paper presents some ideas for the enhancement of the performance of secondary safety systems and reports on the progress made at Loughborough University in the design and assessment of technological requirements and injury mitigation potential of intelligent secondary safety systems.

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