Title :
Development of a decision making algorithm for airbag control
Author :
Alrabady, Ansaf I. ; Mahmud, Syed M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Wayne State Univ., Detroit, MI, USA
Abstract :
The method for airbag control developed uses two different parameters to predict the severity of the crash. The first parameter is the change in vehicle velocity, which is used to discriminate between barrier crashes. The second parameter is the length of the filtered accelerometer signal curve, which is used to discriminate between all other cases. The authors tested the algorithm on crash data and found that the results were very close to the requirement
Keywords :
automobiles; computerised control; decision support systems; safety systems; airbag control; barrier crashes; crash; decision making algorithm; filtered accelerometer signal curve; length; vehicle velocity; Accelerometers; Algorithm design and analysis; Computer crashes; Decision making; Integral equations; Mechanical sensors; Signal analysis; Time domain analysis; Vehicle crash testing; Vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 1993. IMTC/93. Conference Record., IEEE
Conference_Location :
Irvine, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1229-5
DOI :
10.1109/IMTC.1993.382676
