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Detection Systems For Airbag Deployment, Ryan S. Kee
Detection Systems For Airbag Deployment, Ryan S. Kee
Honors Program Projects
The airbag enablement system in today’s automobiles is not ideal and may allow airbags to deploy when they should not. Weight sensors detect pressure when someone sits in a passenger seat, enabling the airbag to deploy if an accident occurs. This system is flawed. For example, if a heavy box is placed in a passenger seat, the airbag will be unnecessarily enabled. The goal of this research project was to determine if different sensors—not weight sensors or cameras—could be used to identify the occupant of an automobile seat.
Using a microchip programmed in C language, a circuit was designed with …