METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RECOGNITION OF A COLLISION WITH A PEDESTRIAN

摘要

The aim of the invention is to determine with high certainty whether a collision with the front of a vehicle was caused by a pedestrian. Two decisive conditions are thus generated and only when both conditions are fulfilled is a pedestrian collision accepted. The first decisive condition is generated by a comparison of pressures or deformations measured by a sensor (3) on the front bumper (2) and a sensor in the region of the front engine bonnet edge (4) with reference data typical for a collision with a pedestrian. The second decisive condition is generated by comparison of the speed and/or acceleration changes caused by the collision with reference data typical for a collision with a pedestrian.