Fault-tolerant bus system for airbag sensors and actuators

Abstract

In order to satisfy the increasing safely requirements for airbag deployment systems in cars, the number of airbag actuators and sensors increases steadily. It is important to keep the complexity of the system manageable, for example by replacing the current point-to-point systems by a networked system. This paper gives an overview of such a system and discusses some of the interesting implementation details. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.