Integrated Safety

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Integrated Safety

• Research Needs
• Andre RAULT
• EUCAR General Secretary

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Objectives

• To develop and demonstrate safety countermeasures
  able to
• avoid an accident situation or a collision,
• mitigate the consequences, by reducing injuries
  and optimizing rescue interventions.
• A significant contribution to the Commissions
  vision of a 50 reduction of fatal and injury
  accidents by 2010
• Also to prepare further reduction after this
  timescale.

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Approach

• A holistic approach,
• based on real world accidents,
• driven by user needs.

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a holistic approach
Safety dimension prevention-avoidance-protection-r
escue and care
Systemic dimension driver-vehicle-infrastructure-e
nvironment
Research fields and technologies dimension
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a holistic approach
Research fields and technologies dimension
Integrated project on INTEGRATED SAFETY
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Accidentology
24 Clusters charaterised by active and
illustrative variables
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Integrated Safety Systems   It is likely that
there shall continue to be road traffic accidents
that active systems cannot fully avoid.
In these cases, the combination of active and
passive systems can offer significant benefits.
This is because the new wave of active safety
systems shall use a range of new sensor systems
that can assist smart passive safety systems to
perform in a more effective manner.
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Sensor Fusion  
If we decide that we want to use a radar system
for our adaptive cruise control, maybe we can use
it for parking, and pedestrian sensing.
If we have forward-looking video for lane
control, why not also use for adaptive cruise
control and for belt pretensioning?
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Clearly many sensors can have multiple uses and
can refine the decisions made by any one sensor
system. The passive safety devices can be just
some of the systems that can benefit from sensor
fusion but how do we do this safely?
  There are many legal issues to be tackled in
this area many are not at all clear. Until
these are resolved, there is one guiding
principle, which vehicle manufacturers must
observe
  DO NO HARM !
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Loss of control Intersections Overtaking
manoeuvres
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Safety Functions
Guidance and control (longitudinal and lateral)
Vision enhancement and perception
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Safety Functions
Guidance and control (longitudinal and lateral)
Protection and rescue
Vision enhancement and perception
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Safety functions and countermeasureson the basis
of current knowledge

• Vision enhancement perception
• Guidance and control (longitudinal and lateral)
• Prevention and rescue
• Preventive restraints and protection
• Emergency rescue and support
• Compatibility

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Research fields

• Human Factors / HMI
• . Driver behaviour (work load, driver
  distraction)
• . HMI-Technologies (displays, controls)
• . Risk assessment
• Information technologies and architecture
• . Robustness and reliability of environmental
  sensing, sensor fusion
• . Communication technologies (car to car, car to
  infrastrucrure) and high-accurate maps.
• . Occupant sensing (vigilance, distraction,
  position)
• . Suitable electronic architecture
• Vehicle technologies and new or advanced safety
  functions
• . Advanced chassis technologies (x-by wire)
• . New materials (adaptative crash performance,
  high energy absorbing)
• . Measures for supporting and improving rescue
• Analysis and assessment
• . Accident methodology
• . Test methodology (Dummies, test methods)
• . Simulation tools (driver behaviour, vehicle
  dynamic, biomechanics, crashperformance)
• . Driver acceptance, Forecast methodology (real
  world prediction)
• Implementation

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Activities

• Activity 1 Accident analysis
• Activity 2 Definition of countermeasures
• Activity 3 System engineering
• Activity 4 Realisation of countermeasures and
  functions
• Activity 5 Vehicle tests (integration) and
  validation
• Activity 6 Demonstration fleets and environment
• Activity 7 Preparation of market introduction

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Time plan