Zf Friedrichshafen Ag

Michal Duchowski

Charles Anthony Bartlett

Kiran Balasubramanian

Huahn-Fern Yeh

Harald Pfriender

Andreas Fleckner

Kyeora Lee

Carl Munch

Pawel Koziel

Steven Kanzler

A vehicle safety system for helping to protect a pedestrian in the event of a vehicle frontal collision with the pedestrian includes a plurality of crash sensors for sensing a vehicle frontal collision, an actuatable pedestrian protection device, a controller for controlling actuation of the pedestrian protection device, and at least one active sensor for determining the presence of a pedestrian in the path of the vehicle.

Passive pedestrian protection system utilizing inputs from active safety system

A method helps to protect an occupant of a vehicle () equipped with an automated driving system () and a vehicle safety system () by detecting low impact crash events () with the vehicle (). The method includes utilizing automated driving sensors () of the automated driving system () to identify possible low impact collision risks. The method also includes utilizing vehicle safety system sensors () of the vehicle safety system to determine a low impact collision resulting from the identified possible low impact collision. A vehicle safety system () includes an airbag controller unit () configured to implement the method to determine low impact crash events with the vehicle ().

Low impact detection for automated driving vehicles

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Czȩstochowa, Poland

Michal Duchowski