SOLUTION

emotion3D’s Human Analysis Software derives valuable information from a video stream proided by a 3D camera that is installed inside the vehicle.

While information about the occupant’s body characteristics is generated during normal driving, information about body position and body dynamics before the crash are being rapidly generated just before impact.

Dedicated crash sensors detect unavoidable impacts and send signals to the restraint control system to trigger the vehicle’s passive safety systems.

Body movements and distances are being calculated at a very high frame rate just before the impact. This way, changes in body position, head rotation, etc. resulting from the driver breaking or the activation of the AEB can be taken into account.

Especially in AEB events, the occupants’ body posture can change dramatically and must be taken into account for airbag deployment.

Veoneer’s Adaptive Restraint Control System uses information about the crash (e.g. direction, intensity) and information about the occupants (e.g. size, body position, crash body dynamics) to calculate the optimal airbag deployment strategy for each individual occupant.

By intelligent triggering of different fire loops, adjusting the timing of firing and controlling the venting of airbags, the system is able to adjust a variety of factors to achieve improved protection for each vehicle occupant.