Collision Energy Mitigation through Active Control of Future Lightweight Vehicle Architectures

James E. Trollope, Keith J. Burnham

2013

Abstract

The paper challenges the current state-of-the-art which is accepted by the automotive industry. Present day vehicles are unsophisticatedly over-engineered and, as a consequence, are uneconomic, hence unsustainable. Vehicles currently under development, however, offer tremendous opportunities for shifting from this position to include onboard active safety systems, e.g. collision avoidance. It is argued that future vehicles should be significantly lighter and exploit the developing safety features to the full. Indeed, such a development would reduce the existing need for crashworthiness. The above arguments coupled with parallel developments in smart materials, paves the way towards a new generation of actively controlled vehicle architecture design. Whilst the move to lighter vehicles, with onboard active safety systems and actively controlled structures, may be seen as controversial, there is a convincing case for a paradigm shift towards a truly sustainable transport future.

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in Harvard Style

E. Trollope J. and J. Burnham K. (2013). Collision Energy Mitigation through Active Control of Future Lightweight Vehicle Architectures . In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-8565-71-6, pages 477-484. DOI: 10.5220/0004598304770484


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco13,
author={James E. Trollope and Keith J. Burnham},
title={Collision Energy Mitigation through Active Control of Future Lightweight Vehicle Architectures},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,},
year={2013},
pages={477-484},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004598304770484},
isbn={978-989-8565-71-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,
TI - Collision Energy Mitigation through Active Control of Future Lightweight Vehicle Architectures
SN - 978-989-8565-71-6
AU - E. Trollope J.
AU - J. Burnham K.
PY - 2013
SP - 477
EP - 484
DO - 10.5220/0004598304770484