title: Analysis of the minimum swerving distance for the development of a motorcycle autonomous braking system.
abstract: In the recent years the autonomous emergency brake (AEB) was introduced in the automotive field to mitigate the injury severity in case of unavoidable collisions. A crucial element for the activation of the AEB is to establish when the obstacle is no longer avoidable by lateral evasive maneuvers (swerving). In the present paper a model to compute the minimum swerving distance needed by a powered two-wheeler (PTW) to avoid the collision against a fixed obstacle, named last-second swerving model (Lsw), is proposed. The effectiveness of the model was investigated by an experimental campaign involving 12 volunteers riding a scooter equipped with a prototype autonomous emergency braking, named motorcycle autonomous emergency braking system (MAEB). The tests showed the performance of the model in evasive trajectory computation for different riding styles and fixed obstacles.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Via di Santa Marta 3, 50139 Firenze, Italy. Electronic address: federico.giovannini@unifi.it.
authors.forename: Federico
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Giovannini
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Savino
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pierini
authors.forename: Niccolò
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Baldanzini
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D003654:Deceleration; D004867:Equipment Design; D004869:Equipment Safety; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009049:Motorcycles
keywords: Emergency braking system; Emergency maneuver; Experimental measurements; Minimum swerving distance; Motorcycle safety