The objective of WP4 is to make the research results from CASPER and the previous projects CREST and CHILD useful for industry and legislative bodies. The work package is organised in 4 tasks.
Task 4.1 concentrates on the development and assessment of dedicated test procedures for child restraint systems for frontal and lateral impact simulation. The project supports the activities of GRSP to develop a new regulation for the homologation of CRS especially by the validation of the new side impact test procedure developed by this group.
In parallel to the experimental development of the test procedures the candidates will be modelled to accompany the analysis and to provide CAE tools for the CRS development.
Based on the results of WP3 solutions for improved CRS taking into account the usability of the products will be proposed in task 4.2. The main objective is to increase the overall usage rate of CRS and to improve the quality of the use. Besides technical solutions for the CRS legislative actions and consumer campaigns will be analysed.
Task 4.3 concentrates on the vehicle related child safety issues. This comprises car-to-CRS communication, integrated CRS, car-to-CRS interface as well as different vehicle types as coaches, planes etc.
Once the test procedures are determined and CRS and vehicle safety devices are evaluated and performed, it is time for the demonstration of the feasibility of these child restraint systems in task 4.4. First, in order to undertake virtual product demonstration, generic computer simulation models for the different types of restraint systems will be developed. As this project aims to cover a wide diversity of users (different age, gender, size, weight and even disabled children) and aims to be useful for all road vehicles (buses, coaches and even trains or planes), a demonstration of the effectiveness of this systems will be carried out.
