title: Context-aware system for pre-triggering irreversible vehicle safety actuators.
abstract: New vehicle safety systems have led to a steady improvement of road safety and a reduction in the risk of suffering a major injury in vehicle accidents. A huge leap forward in the development of new vehicle safety systems are actuators that have to be activated irreversibly shortly before a collision in order to mitigate accident consequences. The triggering decision has to be based on measurements of exteroceptive sensors currently used in driver assistance systems. This paper focuses on developing a novel context-aware system designed to detect potential collisions and to trigger safety actuators even before an accident occurs. In this context, the analysis examines the information that can be collected from exteroceptive sensors (pre-crash data) to predict a certain collision and its severity to decide whether a triggering is entitled or not. A five-layer context-aware architecture is presented, that is able to collect contextual information about the vehicle environment and the actual driving state using different sensors, to perform reasoning about potential collisions, and to trigger safety functions upon that information. Accident analysis is used in a data model to represent uncertain knowledge and to perform reasoning. A simulation concept based on real accident data is introduced to evaluate the presented system concept.
authors.affiliation: AUDI AG, 85045 Ingolstadt, Germany; De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom. Electronic address: dennis.boehmlaender@audi.de.
authors.forename: Dennis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Böhmländer
authors.affiliation: AUDI AG, 85045 Ingolstadt, Germany.
authors.forename: Tobias
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Dirndorfer
authors.affiliation: De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Ali H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Al-Bayatti
authors.affiliation: CARISSMA, Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, Germany.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Brandmeier
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D001334:Automobile Driving / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D015985:Precipitating Factors; D011482:Protective Devices; D012449:Safety
keywords: Collision mitigation; Context-aware system; Crash severity estimation; Driver behavior; Pre-triggering; Vehicle safety