@article{ref1,
title="Optimisation study on multibody vehicle-front model for pedestrian safety",
journal="International journal of crashworthiness",
year="2016",
author="Sankarasubramanian, Hariharan and Chawla, Anoop and Mukherjee, Sudipto and Goehlich, Dietmar",
volume="21",
number="1",
pages="63-78",
abstract="Ensuring the safety of pedestrians in a crash with automobiles remains a vehicle design challenge. Multibody simulations were developed in MADYMO to simulate a crash of a parametrised vehicle front model (14 parameters) against three different Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) pedestrian models (50th %le M, 5th %le F, 6 Y.O. Child). Threat to a targeted pedestrian population was measured using a weighted injury cost (WIC) measure. A pedestrian friendly vehicle profile was obtained using genetic algorithm-based global optimisation to minimise WIC with geometric constraints on vehicle profile. With known limitations, at least one pedestrian-friendly vehicle shape not resembling any existing vehicle profile was found.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1358-8265",
doi="10.1080/13588265.2015.1116425",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13588265.2015.1116425"
}