INTELLIGENT VEHICLE SYSTEMS – COLLISION MITIGATION VEHICLE SYSTEMS FOR PEDESTRIANS

Abstract

Pedestrian Collision Mitigation Systems - PCMS reducing severity of collisions with pedestrians, which are inevitable and decreasing probability of such accidents. By means of collision warning and automatic mitigation braking the systems contribute to the reducing vehicle speed in the moment when the probability of collision is high. Decreasing of collision energy enable to reduce seriousness and range of pedestrian's injury. Generally these systems are described by many features like strategy of control, minimal requirements on functionality, basic elements of HMI, minimal requirements on diagnostics, response to system failure and specification of testing procedures for collision mitigation. According to the rate of system intervention to the vehicle control and level of driver warning it is possible to distinguish various types of system that enable partial autonomous vehicle control in longitudinal direction thereby reduction of driver disturbances.