Performance-based classification of occupant posture to reduce the risk of injury in a collision

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 565-573

  Untaroiu, Costin D ^a   Adam, Thomas J ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Commonwealth Computer Research Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive systems; intelligent vehicles; numerical simulation; vehicle safety

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RESTRAINT SYSTEMS; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CRASH SIMULATION; OPTIMUM PERFORMANCE; RESTRAINT SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL CLASSIFIER; SUPERVISED CLASSIFIERS; VEHICLE SAFETY;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84878474245     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2012.2223687     Document Type: Article

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