OSCCAR project generated output in all relevant projected areas of future occupant safety in the Horizon 2020 MG 3.2-2017 topic “Protection of all road users in crashes”. These areas specifically future traffic accident & conflict incidences considering mixed traffic, improved occupant safety in future automated vehicle enabled interior designs, new occupant sitting positions and advances in related occupant assessment capability, strongly building on virtual testing using human body model (HBM) technologies.
OSCCAR project managed to investigate in 6 different protection principle studies, methods of advanced, future occupant protection, in future relevant crash configurations and interiors using beyond state of the diverse active human model (AHM) and active human body model (AHBM) occupant models. These contain a diverse representation of occupant sizes, from small Asian female to obese, in automated vehicles (AV) enabled interiors characterized by rotated, reclined, and living room seats, looking at critical and future relevant crash configurations like crossing scenarios (straight crossing path and left turn across path, opposite direction, far side), also including pre-crash actions.
OSCCAR was able to provide significant insight into future remaining crashes in automated driving (AD) vehicles in mixed traffic, as well as a related update to openPass open-source software.
OSCCAR was able to demonstrate continuous occupant assessment methodology for pre- and in-crash phases for a set of different occupant models in 3 different solvers and finite element (FE) and multibody simulation technology (Madymo, VPS and LS-Dyna) serving as a selective example for a virtual testing-based homologation test case.
In this context OSCCAR was able to provide a method and procedures for virtual testing relevant for occupant safety assessment with HBMs.
On the improvement of HBM side, OSCCAR was, amongst others, able to provide an openly available catalogue of volunteer test data incl. relevant simulation environment for the pre-crash kinematics, advanced muscle models , kinematic controllers and muscle control systems for HBMs, skin and tissues models for HBMs in order to provide relevant improved lap belt interaction. In addition to that, work on injury criteria for head and neck was done, as well as alignment on rib fracture assessment methodology was achieved.
OSCCAR was able to produce 20+ state of the art enhancing public deliverables, all to be found on
http://www.osccarproject.eu/media/deliverables(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie) OSCCAR was able to provide a large set of open access available data and models for post OSCCAR use, all links to be found on OSCCAR webpage:
https://www.osccarproject.eu/media/results/(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)
