| 摘要 |
<p>An occupant discrimination system incorporates a position sensor (16) for measuring the distance from a fixed structure (28) within the vehicle (10) to a first surface (120) of an occupant (24) or object on a vehicle seat, and a seat weight sensor (352) for measuring the weight of the occupant or object. The position sensor (16) generates a plurality of signal components that are combined with the weight and vehicle speed related measurements so as to form a signal space, from which a plurality of measurements are calculated. A plurality of seat occupancy scenarios are defined and the likelihood of each seat occupancy scenario is functionally related to the plurality of measures. For a given measure state, the likelihood of each of the seat occupancy scenarios is calculated, and the most likely scenario is used to govern the control of a safety restraint system (38).</p> |
