Introduction to integrated Safety
Course description
In order to further improve vehicle safety and to reach the ambitious goals - which for example the European Union has set - regarding the reduction of road fatalities, the implementation of integrated safety systems is a highly effective approach. Such systems combine systems of active safety and of passive safety. They generate new potential, for example to avoid or mitigate accidents. But they also have the potential to reduce cost or weight by physically integrating components such as sensors or controllers. On the other hand such systems significantly increase the complexity of safety systems. Therefore the prerequisite for the implementation of integrated safety systems is the ability to understand and manage this complexity. This seminar gives an overview of the possibilities arising from integrating safety systems. After a brief summary of the “classic” systems of passive safety and active safety, the course focuses on the benefits resulting from the integration of both “worlds”.
Two dimensions of integration are considered:
Functional integration creates new safety applications by linking existing systems. For example, the airbag triggering thresholds may be reduced in critical situations (enabling faster airbag deployment in case of an accident) if vehicle dynamics systems (such as ESC) recognize such a situation and share this information with the airbag controller. Packaging integration aims at combining controllers and sensors of different systems and thus avoiding redundancies that need space and add weight and cost. For example the acceleration sensors for the restraint systems and for ESC may be combined to just one sensor (sensor cluster).
The course deals with both dimensions of integration and shows how future safety systems are designed. It addresses the issues of human machine interfaces for warning drivers about hazardous situations, interference of active safety systems (e.g. autonomous braking) to avoid or mitigate accidents and the preconditioning of restraint systems in case of an unavoidable crash.
Course contents
- Overview: active and passive safety systems
- Potential of integrated systems
- Dimensions of integration:
- Functional integration: New safety systems and applications
- Packaging integration: Architectures and integration concepts
- Predictive Sensor Technologies
- Potential of Predictive Safety Systems
Who should attend
The seminar is addressed to everybody interested in an up-date of key technologies for integrated safety:
newcomers, graduates, managers, specialists.
| Introduction to integrated Safety | |
| Instructor(s) | Dr. rer. nat. Lothar Grösch, Groesch Automotive Safety Consulting, LLC |
| Date | on Monday, 25 Oct 2010, 9:00 am |
| Duration | 1 day |
| Location | TrainingCenter Alzenau |
| Fee | €690 till 27.09.2010, thereafter € 750 |
| Code | 1406 |
| Category | Active Safety: Requirements and Strategies |
| Language |
 English |
Note: Information above subject to change.