Event

Welcome to a SAFER Thursday seminar on May 9, 2019 at 11.30-12.30!
 
This week’s seminar is on the SAFER-flagship theme “Virtual Human Safety Models” and chaired by Lotta Jakobsson, Research Area Director Human Body Protection.
SAFER-flagships serve the purpose to showcase and create future success stories to address one or several challenges related to ”Safe transport from door to door”, and to cluster projects showing the strength and uniqueness of the SAFER platform. The SAFER-flagship theme “Virtual Human Safety Models” is about taking the human into development processes and visualization in order to create a safe journey from door to door for all individuals.
 
 
“Driver Model – Predicting Driver Behaviour”
 
Giulio Piccinini, Assistant Professor at the Crash Analysis and Prevention group at Chalmers, will present part of the work performed within the QUADRAE (Quantitative Driver Behaviour Modelling for Active Safety Assessment Expansion) project. QUADRAE aims to model driver behaviour in pre-crash scenarios and in situations where drivers are assisted by active safety systems. Specifically, the presentation will focus on the results from a driving simulator study conducted to model drivers’ brake reaction times (BRTs) to different levels of lead vehicle braking, during driving with Cruise Control (CC) and during silent failures of Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC). The presentation will also introduce another driving simulator study planned, before the conclusion of the project.
 

“Human Body Model – Predicting Occupant Protection”
 
Johan Iraeus, researcher at the Injury Prevention group at Chalmers, will present the state-of-the-art of Human Body Models (HBMs) and discuss future research challenges in the area. The SAFER HBM, developed within several projects at SAFER, is capable of simulating a crash in any direction, also preceded by a manoeuvre such as braking or steering, predicting injury risks to the occupant in the car. Johan will share results from some ongoing areas such as chest injury prediction capabilities, occupant kinematics in manoeuvres and challenges in morphing the model into different sizes of occupants.
 

Please note that this event is for SAFER partners only, special invitations and pre registation only.