Volvo Emergency Brake for animals
Volvo protect its vehicles from accidents involving deer. However, the system will be ready for production for several years.Moose test with a difference: An an animal identification currently working with emergency brake, the Swedish car manufacturer Volvo. The new system is a development of the already famous pedestrian detection with automatic emergency brake, which was first presented last year in the sedan S60. The system for animal identification, which should be ready for production in a few years, combines a radar unit and an infrared camera. It is both diurnal and nocturnal, especially because at dusk and at night the wild animals active.
The thermal imaging camera is constantly monitoring the traffic situation in front of vehicle. an animal is detected within the danger zone, an audible warning signal. If the driver does not react, the system initiates an automatic emergency braking. “The new technology is primarily for travel and speeds in rural areas, designed with the aim of collisions to completely prevent or at least the impact strength to reduce as far as possible, so that the risk of serious injury to occupants can be reduced significantly,” said Andres Eidehall , an expert in active safety systems in Sweden.
The same principle works, the “City Safety” called pedestrian detection. In contrast, when the only work up to 30 km / h speed difference engaging pedestrian system, reliably, the emergency brake for animals so even at higher speeds. Must also “learn” the onboard computer to distinguish animals of goods.
Now is the time to program a software that different species and sizes reliably detect. A challenge to have stood in front of the safety engineers already in the pedestrian detection, as it was necessary to recognize different patterns of movement of such handicapped persons or children. At that time the Swedes have evaluated the “occurrence” of over 10,000 people and fed into the system.
On real life, the researchers also focus this time. Thus, a research team has visited such as an animal park to study the species-typical behavior of different animal species. The focus of accident researchers will initially on elk, red deer and fallow deer, which are involved very often in serious accidents. In Sweden alone occur each year about 7 000 collisions with moose. Also on German roads every year there are around 2 500 wild accidents involving personal injury. Often with devastating output: Even at a speed of 50 km / H has developed a 20 kg lighter deer an impact weight of almost half a tonne.
Apart from software development, it must be to find the best possible use of time and the most appropriate mechanism for triggering the security system. It is also conceivable that a high-beam assistant automatically dims the headlights, to prevent being blinded on the road standing game.
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