Autoliv Development Ab

Autoliv Asp, Incorporated

Veoneer Sweden Ab

Herbert Höfelsauer

Richard Baur

Joshua Forwerck

William M Leach

Sylvia Pietzsch

Stefano Marzani

Francesco Lolli

Mustafa Cuma Celik

A system for determining vibration characteristics of a motor vehicle having a sensing arrangement () adapted to sense vibrations of the vehicle or a vehicle part, and an electronic processing means () adapted to apply an algorithm () for evaluating signals from the sensing arrangement () and for determining vibration characteristics based on the evaluation. The algorithm () includes at least one support vector machine SVM () adapted to output a probability that the current vibration characteristic belongs to a particular pre-set type of vibration characteristic.

System for determining vibration characteristics of a motor vehicle

A sensor assembly for a motor vehicle adapted for sensing impacts including pedestrian impacts. The sensor assembly integrates functions of pressure based sensors used in one embodiment with a compressible tube extending laterally across the front surface of the vehicle and the outboard front boundary areas of the front end of the vehicle. Both acceleration and pressure based sensors are mounted into an integrated sensor housing which is mounted in a desired position at the vehicle front fascia front boundary areas. The system optimizes pressure based sensing while providing acceleration based sensing at the lateral boundary areas where supporting structure does not enable pressure based sensing. The invention further including sensor arrangements including discrete pressure and acceleration sensors deployed for detecting pedestrian impacts at the center and front boundary areas of the vehicle front end.

Pressure and acceleration based pedestrian impact sensor assembly for motor vehicles

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Herbert Höfelsauer