Past events

The next SAFER doctor is Jonas Östh, PhD student at the Department of Applied Mechanics, Chalmers! On the 11st of April he will present and defend his doctoral thesis, which deals with Muscle Responses of Car Occupants. Jonas is PhD student in the SAFER projects Development of Active HBM in Frontal Impact Situations and Active Human Body Models for Virtual

You are invited to an interesting seminar with Dr. Susumu Ejima , field manager of safety research division at Japan Automobile Research Institute (JARI) (who is visiting Chalmers in connection with the Ph.D. defence of Jonas Östh on Friday 11/4 2014). Assessment of a Pre-crash Seatbelt Technology in Frontal Impacts by Using a New Crash Test Sled System The objective

Marco Dozza, Division of Vehicle Safety, Department of Applied Mechanics, Chalmers University of Technology, welcomes you to his docent lecture. Title: Analyzing Road-User Behavior for Active Safety This docent lecture will give an overview of recent trends in analysis of field data for traffic safety. By highlighting the novelty of naturalistic data in relation to other road data, this lecture

The competence area Human Factors Design at SAFER in collaboration with the Human Factors Collegium in Göteborg arrange a seminar on multimodality in interaction design. The program consists of the following topics and speakers Johan Lindvall , MTO Säkerhet AB: Cognition and multimodality Otto Carlander , SAAB: Sound and haptics David Gillblom , Semcon: Sound and vibration Annie Rydström

On Friday March 7th at 10:00, Malin Sundbom , PhD Student at Department of Signals and Systems, Chalmers, will give her licentiate seminar. Thesis title: Towards Driver Adaptive Active Safety Systems Discussion Leader: Dr. David Cole, University of Cambridge, UK ABSTRACT: ​In recent years, active safety systems have become a standard accessory in new cars and trucks. This thesis addresses

Välkommen till tredje upplagan av Barn, Liv och Trafik - en innehållsrik och aktuell heldag med kunskaps- och erfarenhetsutbyte om barn och ungas trygghet och säkerhet i trafikmiljön. Konferensen är mötesplatsen för dig som hanterar eller beslutar kring stads- och trafikmiljö, samhällsplanering, folkhälsa och undervisning som rör barn och ungdomar. Träffa kollegor, forskare och sakkunniga från olika delar av Sverige

The next SAFER doctor is Jonas Nilsson, Industrial PhD student at the Department of Signals and Systems, Chalmers and Volvo Cars! On the 21st of February he will present and defend his doctoral thesis, which deals with Automotive Safety Systems. Jonas is PhD student in the projects Verification of Active Safety Functions and Verification of Active Safety Functions . Title

In the afternoon Thursday the 20th of February we welcome you to a seminar day on automatic and cooperative driving. Please see attached file for program and abstracts of the speakers. Welcome.

On Thursday February 20th at 09:00, Julia Nilsson, Industrial PhD Student at Department of Signals and Systems, Chalmers, and Volvo Cars will give her licentiate seminar. Thesis title: On decision-making and control for automated highway driving Discussion Leader: Professor Bart van Arem, Department of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology The seminar is open for all!

On Thursday February 13th at 10:30, Azita Dabiri, PhD Student at Department of Signals and Systems, Chalmers, will give her licentiate seminar. Thesis title: Incident Traffic Flow Models Discussion Leader: Dr.ir. Andreas Hegyi, Department of Transport and Planning, Delft University The seminar is open for all!

On Friday February 7th at 13:15, Dimitrios Gkouskos, PhD Student at Department of Applied IT, Chalmers, will have his licentiate seminar. Thesis title: Joyride! Towards User Experience Design for In-Vehicle Systems Discussion Leader: Dr. Brendon Clark, Interactive Institute Swedish ICT Abstract Modern vehicles are no longer used solely for transportation but are also multi- featured environments that offer a host

The next SAFER doctor is Claudia Wege, an industrial PhD student at Volvo GTT. She is connected to SAFER and working in the EU Marie Curie Project ADAPTATION , supervised by Adj.Prof. Trent Victor. On the 27th of January she will give her PhD thesis presentation. Title: "Adaptive Eyes - Driver Distraction and Inattention Prevention Through Advanced Driver Assistance Systems

2014 hålls Transportforum den 8-9 januari i Linköping. Programmet riktar sig till alla som är yrkesverksamma inom transportsektorn. SAFER leder som vanligt en session - i år om cykling! Session 24: Säker cykling – hur gör vi? Dag 1, onsdag 8 januari 2014, kl 15:30-17:30, Klostersalen, Scandic Frimis. Ordförande: Anna Nilsson-Ehle, SAFER Varför behövs en åtgärdsstrategi för säkrare cykling? Hur

SAFER Seminar: Distributed consensus strategy for platooning of vehicles in the presence of time varying heterogeneous communication delays We welcome you all to a SAFER seminar with Professor Stefania Santini, University of Naples "Federico II"! Prof Santini will give a talk on platooning and wireless communication Abstract. The aim of the talk is to analyze and solve platooning by treating

Improving Defect Management in Automotive Software Development, LiDeC - A Light-weight Defect Classification Scheme The next SAFER doctor is Niklas Mellegård at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers/University of Gothenburg ! On the 29th of November he will present and defend his doctoral thesis, which deals with automotive software development. Title: "Improving Defect Management in Automotive Software Development

Docent Lecture: Johan Davidsson, Vehicle Safety Title: Injury biomechanics - human thresholds Background: Johan Davidsson defended his Ph.D. thesis in Biomechanics in 2000 on the design of a crash test dummy for evaluation of seat system performance in rear‐end crashes; the BioRID II. Since then he has taught graduate students, supervised PhD‐students, and performed research with partners inside and outside

SAFER & NTF Väst bjuder in till ett seminarium om framtidens fordon den 18 november 2013. Framtidens trafik - säker och hållbar? Fordon kommunicerar redan idag med andra fordon, sin omgivning, och sin förare. Gör detta trafiken säkrare, effektivare och mer hållbar? Dagens kommunikationsbegrepp omfattar allt ifrån sensorer och kommunikation omkring fordonet, hur fordon kommunicerar med varandra, och hur bilen

Inauguration Lecture - Leo Laine Title: Challenges ahead within developing the next generation of productive commercial heavy vehicles Dr Leo Laine received his MSc at Chalmers in 1996. In 2002 he started his doctoral studies within the topic of Hybrid Electric Vehicles illustrating how vehicle stability control is balanced with energy management for over-actuated vehicles. Since 2007, he currently works

Structural Safety Design for Real-World Situations - Using Computer Aided Engineering for Robust Passenger Car Crashworthiness The next SAFER doctor is Linus Wågström, industrial phd student at Chalmers Applied Mechanics and Volvo Cars! On the 8th of November he will present and defend his doctoral thesis, which deals with Structural Safety Design for Real-World Situations. Title: " Structural Safety Design

Välkommen till ett seminarium som kommer att belysa frågor som: Varför är det viktigt att äldre kan fortsätta att köra bil? Vilka situationer är riskfyllda för äldre bilförare? Vad kan vi göra för att förlänga tiden med säker bilkörning? Idag lever vi längre, håller oss friskare och reser mer än tidigare generationer. Mobilitet, eller rörlighet, och tillgänglighet är en förutsättning