AM4022 Automotive Safety Syllabus:
AM4022 Automotive Safety Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021
OBJECTIVES:
The course should enable the students:
To introduce vehicle structural crashworthiness and crash testing
To introduce pedestrian safety
To get the knowledge in sensors provided in the vehicle to avoid the crash and to detect the obstacles around the vehicle.
To understand the fundamentals of sensor data fusion as it relates to ADAS.
To Understand the concept of the connected vehicle and its role in ADAS and automated vehicles.
UNIT I CONCEPTS OF AUTOMOTIVE SAFETY
Automotive safety: Introduction and Types. Active safety: driving safety, conditional safety, Perceptibility safety, operating safety. Passive safety: Design of body for safety. Concept of crumble zone, Safety Cage. Optimum crash pulse, deceleration on impact with stationary and movable obstacles. Design for Crashworthiness. NCAP.
UNIT II PASSIVE SAFETY EQUIPMENTS AND CONVENIENCE SYSTEM
Seat belt, Seat belt tightener system and importance, collapsible steering column. Air bags and its activation. Designing aspects of automotive bumpers and materials for bumpers. Steering and mirror adjustment, central locking system, Tire pressure control system, rain sensor system, Automated wiper system.
UNIT III ACTIVE SAFETY
Antilock braking system, Stability Control. Adaptive cruise control, Lane Keep Assist System, Collision warning, avoidance system, Blind Spot Detection system, Driver alertness detection System. ADAS
UNIT IV VEHICLE INTEGRATION AND NAVIGATION SYSTEM
Looking out sensors and Looking in sensors, Intelligent vision system, Vehicle Integration system. Global Positioning System. Vehicle Navigation System. Road Network.V2V.
UNIT V AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE
SAE Levels of Driving Automation, Level 0 – No Driving Automation, Level 1 – Driver Assistance, Level 2 – Partial Driving Automation, Level 3 – Conditional Driving Automation, Level 4 – High Driving Automation, Level 5 – Full Driving Automation.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
OUTCOMES:
The students should be able to:
Know about the design of the bumper for safety.
Know about the concept of crumble zone, and also the effect of acceleration and deceleration of the vehicle in the compartment of the vehicle.
Know the various types of safety aspects such as active and passive safety, the active safety components and the working passive safety components such as air bags, seatbelts
Understand the fundamentals of sensor data fusion as it relates to ADAS.
Understand the concept of the connected vehicle and its role in ADAS and automated vehicles.
REFERENCES:
1. ARAI Safety standards
2. Bosch, “Automotive HandBook”, 6th edition, SAE, 2004.
3. Ljubo Vlacic, Michel Parent, Fumio Harashima – “Intelligent Vehicle Technologies Theory and Applications” -Butterworth-Heinemann, 2001
4. Marek .J, H.-P. Trah, Y. Suzuki, I. Yokomori – “Sensors for Automotive Applications “ – WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. 2003
5. Robert Bosch GmbH – “Safety, Comfort and Convenience Systems”- Wiley; 3rd edition , 2007
6. Surface Vehicle Recommended Practice – SAE J 3016-2018 , SAE International ,2018