Method for damping crash-discrimination measures

摘要

In a system and method for controlling actuation of a vehicle passenger safety device, wherein a first time-varying measure m1(t), itself a function of received vehicle acceleration information, is accumulated to obtain a second time-varying measure m2(t) for subsequent comparison with a threshold value therefor, the first measure m1(t) is "damped" prior to accumulation by subtracting therefrom a correction value or "damping factor fd." The damping factor fd may be either a constant or a time-varying function fd(t) of one or more other time-varying measures, themselves based on received vehicle acceleration information.