To assess elderly occupant protection in frontal as well as near-side impacts two restraint systems were designed to reduce loading of the chest and thereby reduce the risk of rib fractures which are common among the elderly population. The frontal protection system is called the split buckle (SB) system, and the side impact protection system is a pre-crash dual airbag (Pre-Crash SAB). The spli...

In our paper we describe the ongoing research to develop an intelligent airbag system. Using image sequences acquired from a stereo camera, we detect the form and the position of the driver and passenger seat. And, if a seat is classified as occupied, we try to estimate the geometry and position of the human’s head as the most distinguishing feature of the body, if it is possible. The developed...

BACKGROUND Within Europe and North America, the median annual mortality from snow avalanches between 1994 and 2003 was 141. There are two commonly used rescue devices: the avalanche transceiver, which is intended to speed up locating a completely buried person, and the avalanche airbag, which aims to prevent the person from being completely buried. OBJECTIVE This retrospective study aimed to ...

This paper deals with the interface-relevant activity of a vehicle integrated intelligent safety system (ISS) that includes an airbag deployment decision system (ADDS) and a tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS). A program is developed in LabWindows/CVI, using C for prototype implementation. The prototype is primarily concerned with the interconnection between hardware objects such as a load c...