Modeling Active Human Muscle Responses during Driver and Autonomous Avoidance Maneuvers
Other conference contribution, 2014

Integration of pre-crash and in-crash safety systems has a potential to further reduce car occupant fatalities and to mitigate injuries. However, the introduction of integrated safety systems creates new requirements for Human Body Models (HBMs) as occupant kinematics must be predicted for a longer period of time, in order to evaluate the effect of systems activated before the crash phase. For this purpose, a method to model car occupant muscle responses in a finite element (FE) HBM have been developed, utilizing feedback control of Hill-type muscle elements. The model has been applied to study occupant kinematics under the influence of autonomous and driver braking deceleration. Ongoing work aims at extending the model to be able to also capture human responses to lateral and oblique pre-crash loading.

finite element

human body model

feedback postural control

occupant kinematics

active muscle

Author

Jonas Östh

Vehicle and Traffic Safety Centre at Chalmers

Chalmers, Applied Mechanics, Vehicle Safety

Jóna Marin Olafsdottir

Chalmers, Applied Mechanics, Vehicle Safety

Vehicle and Traffic Safety Centre at Chalmers

Karin Brolin

Vehicle and Traffic Safety Centre at Chalmers

Chalmers, Applied Mechanics, Vehicle Safety

3rd International Workshop on Computational Engineering CE 2014

Areas of Advance

Transport

Subject Categories

Applied Mechanics

Vehicle Engineering

Infrastructure

C3SE (Chalmers Centre for Computational Science and Engineering)

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Created

10/7/2017