TY - GEN
T1 - An active acceleration system to mitigate/avoid underride rear-end crashes
AU - Romero, Jose A.
AU - Guzman, Alejandro A.Lozano
AU - Otremba, Frank
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/7/2
Y1 - 2017/7/2
N2 - Rear-end crashes involving heavy trucks as the leading vehicle, and cars as the impact vehicle, cause many deaths and permanent injuries to cars occupants. Measures have been thus taken in the trucks to prevent underride crashes, including the mounting of stiffer underride guards, set at car s bumper height. In this respect, an active acceleration system (AAS), installed in the truck, could also contribute to mitigate the effects of these crashes, through the decrease of the relative speed of the vehicles at the instant of the crash. In this paper, an AAS system is proposed, under the principles of ultrasonic sensors and an actuator for the trucks accelerator mechanism. Simulation results of the operation of this AAS system, suggest that such a system could decrease the relative impact speed around 8% for an initial relative speed of 10 m/s.
AB - Rear-end crashes involving heavy trucks as the leading vehicle, and cars as the impact vehicle, cause many deaths and permanent injuries to cars occupants. Measures have been thus taken in the trucks to prevent underride crashes, including the mounting of stiffer underride guards, set at car s bumper height. In this respect, an active acceleration system (AAS), installed in the truck, could also contribute to mitigate the effects of these crashes, through the decrease of the relative speed of the vehicles at the instant of the crash. In this paper, an AAS system is proposed, under the principles of ultrasonic sensors and an actuator for the trucks accelerator mechanism. Simulation results of the operation of this AAS system, suggest that such a system could decrease the relative impact speed around 8% for an initial relative speed of 10 m/s.
KW - active safety
KW - heavy trucks
KW - simulation
KW - ultrasonic sensor
KW - underride crashes
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85046624354&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICAMechS.2017.8316493
DO - 10.1109/ICAMechS.2017.8316493
M3 - Contribución a la conferencia
AN - SCOPUS:85046624354
T3 - International Conference on Advanced Mechatronic Systems, ICAMechS
SP - 329
EP - 334
BT - 2017 International Conference on Advanced Mechatronic Systems, ICAMechS 2017
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 2017 International Conference on Advanced Mechatronic Systems, ICAMechS 2017
Y2 - 6 December 2017 through 9 December 2017
ER -