High-Speed AEB Crash Scenarios and Simulation-Based Safety Benefit Assessment
Sponsor: Toyota Motor North America · Period: 2024 to 2026 (completed)
Full title: High Speed AEB Crash Scenarios and Simulation-Based Assessment Including Driver Interactions and Safety Benefit Estimation.
Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) is increasingly expected to work at higher speeds, where crash configurations and driver responses differ from the low-speed cases most systems were first designed for. The project estimated how much real-world benefit higher-speed AEB could deliver.
My contributions
- Led development of a MATLAB-based simulation toolchain for assessing AEB safety benefits at higher speeds.
- Built the crash scenario library and ran counterfactual simulations of real-world crashes from NHTSA’s Crash Investigation Sampling System (CISS), with and without AEB intervention.
- Integrated injury risk modeling and produced the safety benefit estimates.
Efe Yarbasi is an Assistant Research Scientist in the Engineering Systems Group at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). His research covers the safety of automated and driver-assistance systems and the electrification of transportation. He serves as principal investigator and co-principal investigator on projects sponsored by NHTSA, Toyota Motor North America, and the National Cooperative Highway Research Program. He co-leads the Low Altitude Airspace Working Group at M-Air.
He holds a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech. There he worked in the Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory under Prof. Dimitri Mavris and developed methods to find and reduce the uncertainties that matter most in complex, multi-disciplinary designs. He is a member of AIAA and IEEE.
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