Event

Welcome to the SAFER Thursday lunch and networking seminar February 27th at 11.30-12.30!
 
For the SAFER lunch and networking seminar week 9 we are happy to welcome Johan Olstam from VTI and Peter Appelgren, BETA CAE Nordic AB.

Enabling “Automation-Ready” Transport Planning
Speaker: Johan Olstam, Research Leader, VTI

There are large expectations on automated vehicles (AVs) to improve traffic efficiency, enhance safety and improve mobility for all. However, these gains of AVs may only be fulfilled when local authorities have the capability to shape the deployment of AVs to their mobility goals and plans. Without this capability, AVs might worsen the urban mobility problems that local authorities are currently facing. The EU project CoEXist (https://www.h2020-coexist.eu/), addresses three key steps to achieve Automation-ready transport planning: Automation-ready transport modelling; Automation-ready traffic impact assessment; and Automation-ready road authorities. The presentation will focus on the overall assessment approach developed in CoEXist, including descriptions of how AVs have been included in the traffic models and how uncertainties related penetration rates, mixes of different types of AVs and the evolution of AV capabilities have been handled to present estimations of potential ranges of impact on traffic performance.

The use of multi-body kinematics and morphing techniques for the positioning of human body models in vehicles.
Speaker: Peter Appelgren, Senior Specialist Crash & Safety, BETA CAE Nordic AB

The simulation of crash events involving realistic human body models has been a key focal point for safety engineers in the development and evaluation of conventional vehicles. As the era of autonomous vehicles is closing in, a wide range of out of position load-cases for passengers are gradually becoming the norm (e.g. from facing forward to facing backward, or from normal seating to fully inclined – and all in between). CAE pre-processing tools need to provide functionality and features that can accurately articulate and position parametric human models within vehicles and cover a range of simulation scenarios. BETA is addressing this by combining and enhancing the multi-body kinematics and the morphing module of ANSA. The seminar will review the advantages and limitations of this approach as an efficient way to better capture and position the different body types (elders, obese, etc.) and study the respective restraint effectiveness. Extensions of the method to the utilization of the multi-body dynamics module and the inclusion of pre-crash simulation will also be discussed.

Register at https://fm.webforum.com/safer/form.asp?sid=614538086 (SAFER partners only) no later than 10.00 on Tuesday, February 25, 2020. The seminar is held at SAFER, Lindholmspiren 3A, 2nd floor, room Aldman, a nice lunch is also served.