Impact alert system and method

摘要

An impact alert system and method for reducing personal injury at vehicle impact, include at least one sensor arrangement adapted to monitor the surroundings of a vehicle, and to generate surrounding signals dependent thereon, a control unit adapted to receive the surrounding signals, and to evaluate the signals in order to predict an impact situation depending on the signals: The control unit is further adapted to, provided that an impact situation is predicted, determine the impact situation depending on the signals, and to determine an optimal muscle activation for an occupant for the impact situation, whereby the system is adapted to make an occupant in vehicle start achieve the optimal muscle activation before the impact situation.

主权项

1. An impact alert system for reducing personal injury at vehicle impact, comprising:
at least one sensor arrangement, adapted to monitor the surroundings of a vehicle, and to generate surrounding signals dependent thereon; a control unit adapted to receive said surrounding signals, and to evaluate said signals in order to predict, depending on said signals, whether an impact situation will occur; and an attention system adapted to generate signals perceptible to an occupant of the vehicle, wherein said control unit is configured to, in the event that said impact situation is predicted to occur:
determine a hit direction, relative to the vehicle, of said impact situation, and a point of time said impact situation will occur, depending on said signals,determine, for said occupant of the vehicle, an optimal muscle activation for said impact situation for creating a pre-tensioning of a set of muscles of said occupant that will reduce an impact energy of the impact situation upon the body of said occupant, the control unit configured to determine said optimal muscle activation according to predetermined rules based upon at least one of said determined hit direction, a detected velocity of impact situation, and said determined point of time for said impact situation, and initiate said attention system to cause said occupant in said vehicle to achieve said optimal muscle activation before said point of time of said impact situation.