Airbag 2024

The 16th AIRBAG symposium will be held at a demanding time for automotive manufacturers and suppliers, as they transition towards electrification, digitalization and the roll-out of autonomous driving functionalities. This transformation offers numerous challenges but at the same time significant opportunities for the development and implementation of innovative safety systems.

The symposium will once again be the venue for international engineers, scientists, legislators, managers and marketing experts to exchange information, to make new contacts and to network to promote integral safety for road users on an impartial platform. The two day program will cover relevant aspects from global accident studies and legislation framework, automotive trends and developments, innovations on system and component level, related tools and methods for bringing systems efficiently to market as well as an outlook into future applications and new business opportunities.

First time this symposium will offer a platform for young talents to get in touch with the community and to set foot in this exciting area of technology.

Timetable:

25.11.2024

Workshop 1 (in German)

1. 13.30 bis 18 Uhr: Workshop „Retten ohne Risiko!“ für Rettungskräfte mit „Airbag-Update“, Einsatzberichten und Erfahrungsaustausch
2. POC: Rolf.Erbe@berliner-feuerwehr.de
3. Teilnahmegebühr: 120 Euro frei für Teilnehmer des Airbag-Symposiums.
4. Begrenzte Teilnehmerzahl, Anmeldung formlos an Manuela Wolff mit Angabe der Rechnungsadresse:
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Workshop 2 (in German)

• 14 bis 18 Uhr: Expertenmeeting „Berliner Erklärung zur Fahrzeugsicherheit“ des VDI: Straßenverkehrssicherheit 2030 – Wie bringen sich die Experten der „Berliner Erklärung« zielgerichtet in den „Pakt für Verkehrssicherheit“ des Bundes ein?
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26.11.2024

Road safety and Technologial developments

• Opening session
• Welcome and opening (L. F. Berg, Fraunhofer ICT, Pfinztal, DE)
• KEYNOTE – Pioneering automotive safety: How system suppliers can enable OEMs to navigate automotive transformation (R. Stark, ZF Lifetec, Alfdorf, DE)

BLOCK 1: ROAD SAFETY – CURRENT STATUS AND REQUIREMENTS 2024 AND BEYOND

Session 1: INTERNATIONAL FIELD AND ACCIDENT STUDIES

• Introduction Block 1 and Session 1
• Airbag inflator climate assessment
• Risk of injury and injury pattern with and without an activated restraint system for front row car passengers in low-to-moderate severity frontal crashes
• Road safety in a global perspective – Accidentology in Asia and Europe
• Summary Session 1

Session 2: DEVELOPMENT OF SAFETY RATINGS AND LEGISLATION

• Introduction Session 2
• Comparing real world crash data with EURO- and Bharat-NCAP-protocols
• Euro NCAP – Rating news 2024 and outlook 2026
• Relevance of compatibility in US fatal crashes
• Summary Block 1

POSTER SESSION

BLOCK 2: TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS INFLUENCING AND IMPROVING VEHICLE SAFETY

Session 3: IMPACT OF NEW POWERTRAIN CONCEPTS ON VEHICLE SAFETY

• Introduction Block 2 and Session 3
• INCC: Simplifying regulatory complexity in the vehicle safety industry
• Electric vehicles in crash tests – »Small versus large«
• Volkswagen ID.7 – Key subjects of vehicle safety
• Safety of »New Gen« batteries: Solid-state batteries and sodium-ion-batteries
• Summary Session 3

Session 4: IN-CABIN AND EXTERIOR SENSING

• Introduction Session 4
• Simulation of the precrash phase for function-development and visualization
• Interior sensing systems enhancing passive safety
• Sensorfusion: enabling advanced restraint systems
• Summary Session 4

Session 5: ADAPTIVITY OF PASSIVE SAFETY SYSTEMS

• Introduction Session 5
• Adaptive restraint systems using advanced occupant classification
• Equity efforts in vehicle safety drive adaptivity of restraint systems
  
  
• Summary and closing day 1
• Poster-Award & AIRBAG-Award

27.11.2024

Tools, methods and advanced technologies

BLOCK 3: TOOLS AND METHODS ENABLING EFFICIENT DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION

Session 6: TOOLS AND METHODS – TEST METHODS AND DEVICES

• Opening, Introduction Block 3 and Session 6
• Blackbox side airbag-3D visualization of the scattering of a side airbag folding
• High-speed X-ray system provides deep insight into the dynamic of passenger safety and sets a new basis for the validation of restraint systems
• Verification methodology for active seatbelts in pre-braked crash scenarios using HYDRA^®
• Summary Session 6

Session 7: TOOLS AND METHODS – TEST METHODS DUMMIES AND ATDS

• Introduction Session 7
• Reproducibility and repeatability investigation of THOR 50 m chest response in vehicle environment – A unique data set for world wide collaboration
• Accounting for and dealing with uncertainty inherent to ATDs in the design of occupant safety systems
• Gender discussion in vehicle safety – An overview of the consideration of subparts of the population in vehicle safety in current ATD development
• Summary Session 7

Session 8: TOOLS AND METHODS – VIRTUAL ENGINEERING AND DIGITALIZATION

• Introduction Session 8
• Human body modelling for tissue based injury prediction
• The road to virtual testing, opportunities and challenges
• Airbag CAE models – A new folding approach
• Summary Session 8

PANEL DISCUSSION: How to use tools and methods to achieve timely developments to market.

BLOCK 4: ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE VEHICLE OF THE FUTURE

Session 9: AIRBAG INNOVATIONS FOR ENHANCED OCCUPANT SAFETY

• Introduction Block 4 and Session 9
• Technology to suppress airbag bouncing
• Seatback airbag for rear-facing occupants in high-speed frontal impact
• Bernoulli PAB – Aspirated passenger airbag system
• Summary Session 9

Session 10: SAFETY TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE INTERIOR OF THE FUTURE

• Interior of the future (IOF) and new seating positions require new airbag technology to improve lower leg protection of occupants
• Innovative countermeasures to reclined occupant protection
• Summary Session 10
• Closing remarks Airbag 2024

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