A spatially distributed smart skin seat sensor for high-resolution real-time occupant position tracking Academic Article

abstract

• A two-dimensional spatially distributed smart skin sensor for real-time seat occupant position sensing is presented. The sensor exploits principles of spatial aperture shading of distributed transducers such as piezo-electric polymers and resistors, which are used as the active sensing medium. An example application is presented in which the sensor is used to report passenger position to an automobile air bag control system. The real-time data is used to modulate airbag deployment energies, mitigating passenger injury.

authors

• Hubbard Jr, James

published proceedings

• SMART STRUCTURES AND MATERIALS 1999: INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS OF SMART STRUCTURES TECHNOLOGIES

author list (cited authors)

• Hubbard, J. E., & Burke, S. E.

citation count

• 0

complete list of authors

• Hubbard, JE||Burke, SE

editor list (cited editors)

• Jacobs, J. H.

publication date

• January 1999

publisher

• SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics  Publisher

published in

• Proceedings of SPIE  Journal

keywords

• Center-of-force
• Distributed Transducers
• Spatial Weighting

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1117/12.351546

start page

• 104

end page

• 117

volume

• 3674

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.351546

user-defined tag

• 3 Good Health and Well-Being