Project description
Paving the way for future vehicle safety
Ensuring the safety of future vehicles poses a significant challenge due to the introduction of highly automated vehicles and changing demographics. Current safety regulations and consumer crash tests fail to address the emerging challenges. For instance, traditional approaches do not account for relevant accident scenarios, changing vehicle interior designs, new occupant sitting positions, and the impact of an aging population. Consequently, targeted changes and adaptations are necessary to ensure occupant safety development, assessment, and homologation. The EU-funded OSCCAR project will address this issue. By using a comprehensive integrated approach and emphasising virtual methods, OSCCAR aims to develop advanced occupant protection systems, harmonise human body models, and revolutionise the assessment process for future safety solutions.
Objective
OOSCCAR uses a comprehensive integrated approach for the development of future advanced occupant protection systems. It will provide a unique human body model (HBM)-based development and assessment framework, covering main challenges of future road safety due to the introduction of highly automated vehicles as well as changes in demographics: relevant accident scenarios (mixed traffic), future vehicle interior designs, new occupant sitting positions, ageing population etc. This demands for targeted changes and adaptions of scenarios, procedures and tools for occupant safety development, assessment and homologation, not addressed by e.g. regulations or consumer crash tests today. The resulting complexity requires an emphasis on virtual methods.
Based on the analysis of future relevant accident scenarios and considering new, highly automated vehicles (HAVs) enabled sitting positions, OSCCAR will develop and demonstrate advanced occupant protection principles. These require assessment with improved HBMs (omni-directionally biofidelic, active and robust), considering gender and demographic factors as well as improved soft tissues material properties. Furthermore, OSCCAR will develop fully integrated assessment methods for complex test scenarios of the complete crash phase providing the required level of confidence as current physical test procedures do. OSCCAR will also contribute to the harmonization of HBMs, a harmonized validation of injury criteria as well as the improvement of virtual testing standards.
Eventually OSCCAR will develop a clear roadmap towards large scale implementation of virtual testing methods for advanced safety solutions, not only relevant in the automotive domain but also for two-wheelers, VRUs, or in sports. Due to its excellent partner consortium with key players from industry and research from Europe, North America and Asia, OSCCAR is in the position to ensure global future deployment and application of its results and achievements.
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
8010 Graz
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Participants (26)
447 83 Vargarda
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447 00 Vargarda
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51427 Bergisch Gladbach
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70839 Gerlingen-Schillerhoehe
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412 96 GOTEBORG
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70372 Stuttgart
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92220 BAGNEUX
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60549 FRANKFURT AM MAIN
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43710 Santa Oliva
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85055 Ingolstadt
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36400 PORRINO O PONTEVEDRA
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80539 Muenchen
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52062 Aachen
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52074 Aachen
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3001 Leuven
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5657 BX Eindhoven
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1140 Bruxelles / Brussel
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8010 Graz
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67081 Strasbourg
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70174 Stuttgart
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405 31 Goteborg
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38440 Wolfsburg
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73553 Alfdorf
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100084 BEIJING
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300300 TIANJIN
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70372 Stuttgart
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