Project description
Highly personalised protection for vehicle occupants
All cars are built with safety features to avoid injuries and fatalities in the event of an accident. Passive safety systems (PSS) such as seatbelts and airbags protect vehicle occupants and other road users in case of an impact. PSS perform best for the ‘average person’, which is a 175 cm, 78 kg and male. Automotive passive safety systems do not adequately account for women, children, elderly, and men deviating from the average. Within the EU-funded SMART-RCS(opens in new window) project, the project partners will develop a new, highly personalised protection technology. For the first time, touchless 3D imaging sensors will be used to derive precise and real-time information about each passenger (body physique, position and pose, weight and gender). Based on this information, a personalised airbag deployment strategy will be computed in real-time. Ultimately, this will lead to optimised safety for all occupants regardless of their body characteristics or sitting position.
Objective
Worldwide, over 1 million people die each year in road accidents and millions more suffer from injuries. Mandatory Passive Safety Systems (PSS) e.g. in case of a crash, trigger passive safety functions such as airbags and seat belts to reduce the number of fatalities and heavy injuries. However, these PSS follow a ”few-sizes-fit-all” approach (optimized to an “average person” – 175cm, 78kg and male) and thus today, especially for women, children, elderly and people deviating from the average, this leads to significantly higher risks, e.g. any seatbelt-wearing female occupant is 73% more likely to suffer from serious injuries than seatbelt-wearing male occupants (Univ. Virginia).
Our project combining R&D and market expertise of 2 industries (airbag and testing systems) and 1 SME partner (computer vision-based software) will disrupt the existing PSS market by introducing a novel highly PERSONALIZED PROTECTION. For the first time, touchless 3D imaging sensors are used to derive precise and real-time information about each occupant - body physique, position and pose, weight and sex - in order to control the PSS mechanisms tailored to each individual occupant. This optimizes the protective function while simultaneously also mitigating the risks of doing unnecessary harm which today also can occur.
During this project we will develop our system up to TRL8, standardize & prepare its components for the market needs and implement quality assurance processes required by the automotive industry. Also, a first pilot project with a car manufacturer shall be conducted to allow a short time-to-market across the EU and worldwide on the long run. Our impact targets: saving more than 11.000 lives and preventing over 600.000 injuries between 2025 and 2035. Our innovation strategy: What the system will provide in nowadays cars will also be highly relevant when passengers will be able to move much more freely throughout the interior of a car – in the era of autonomous vehicles.
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- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering control systems
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering sensors
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H2020-EC - Horizon 2020 Framework Programme
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H2020-EU.3. - PRIORITY 'Societal challenges
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IA - Innovation action
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(opens in new window) H2020-EIC-FTI-2018-2020
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1040 VIENNA
Austria
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