Since its introduction in 1985, the airbag has become standard equipment on almost any vehicle market. The effectiveness of modern airbags has lead to further equipment of passenger cars and commercial vehicles with side airbags, curtain airbags and even knee airbags. On the active safety side ESP has proven its high effectiveness against accidents based on skidding, since its introduction in 1995 impressingly. Actual trends seem to predict, that ESP will become standard safety equipment in near future as well. Especially in the USA, ESP will be mandatory for vehicle below l0.000pds from 2010 onwards. The detailed knowledge of an ESP-System about the actual vehicle kinematics can leverage the restraint system performance essentially by overcoming the airbag's intrinsic lack of information prior to any crash. Vehicle kinematics can contribute essentially to the situation awareness and risk assessment during the pre-crash phase. In addition to that, reversible restraint systems like motorized seatbelts help to further reduce injuries during an accident. Thus, the networking of the highly available systems 'airbag control' and ESP can provide the necessary information to gain life saving milliseconds when making deployment decisions for reversible and irreversible restraint devices.
CAPS - a question of milliseconds. Improved deployment of passenger restraint systems using vehicle kinematics data
CAPS - eine Frage von Millisekunden. Verbesserte Entfaltung von Insassenrückhaltesystemen unter Verwendung von Fahrzeug-Kinematikdaten
2006
14 Seiten, 18 Bilder
Conference paper
English
CAPS - a question of milliseconds
Automotive engineering | 2006
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British Library Conference Proceedings | 2006
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