Study regarding the influence of passive safety systems on the occupant in the case of Automatic Emergency Braking System activation

Abstract

Abstract The aim of this paper was to analyze the injury level of the occupants of a vehicle in the case using the AEB system to reduce the velocity of a front-back collision by utilizing virtual simulations in PC-Crash software. This was achieved by conducting simulation at different velocities and 3 passive safety systems configurations. The velocities tested were 70, 75 and 80 km/h to observe the speed reduction of the vehicle in a collision by the AEB system. Also, the occupant was configured in 3 types of scenarios, when the occupant does not have the seatbelt or airbag, when only the seatbelt is used and when both seatbelt and airbag are activated. The results revealed a great speed reduction by the AEB system, reducing the impact velocity and also the occupant presented a reduced injury risk when both passive safety systems are active.