Reconfigurable method for event detection in a motor vehicle

摘要

A reconfigurable rollover event detection methodology utilizes an existing body of vehicle sensor data. A number of different algorithms (36, 38, 40, 42, 44) or look-up modules develop rollover detection outputs based on different sets of sensor data, and a meta-algorithm (90) combines the various rollover detection outputs to form a single rollover detection output (93). The number of individual rollover detection outputs is configurable depending on the extent of the available sensor data in a given vehicle and changes in sensor availability that occur due to sensor and communication failures.