MEET THE SAFE-UP PARTNERS
ZF Friedrichshafen AG
Who belongs to your SAFE-UP team?
The ZF participants in the SAFE-UP team include Lars Schories (the ZF project lead), Lena Poschenrieder, Tobias Hänsel, Ganesh Baroda Sudhakaran, Dr. Ellankavi Ramasamy and Hamdaan Shaik, all hailing from several ZF Corporate R&D teams.
What does ZF bring to the project?
ZF is particularly involved in work packages 2 and 5. In T2.1 (Use Cases Definition), ZF was primarily concerned with the interaction between pedestrians and vehicles in normal driving scenarios but especially in critical interaction situations. We investigated the question of how the interaction takes place and when it could become critical. To do this, we combined accident data from the GIDAS database with real driving data from NDD studies. In WP5, ZF evaluates the performance of SAFE-UP's active safety technologies in terms of their potential to avoid crashes or reduce the severity of injury in a crash. The goal is to reduce crash fatalities by 10 per cent.
Why did you want to take part in SAFE-UP?
ZF decided to participate in the SAFE-UP project to better exchange information with international partners and to strengthen its network with additional experts and developers in the field of vehicle safety. Our claim is a high level of system competence in the field of integrated vehicle safety and this includes strong expertise in accident analysis and the performance of relevant safety technologies. For us, all of this contributes to achieving Vision Zero.
Which other initiatives are you involved in?
Other projects in the area of vehicle safety include the VDA flagship initiatives in the field of autonomous and connected driving, the EU project OSCCAR, and the two new initiatives i4Driving and V4Safety.
Related deliverables
D2.6 USE CASE DEFINITIONS AND INITIAL SAFETY-CRITICAL SCENARIOS
D3.2 DEMO 2 (VEHICLE DEMONSTRATOR FOR OBJECT DETECTION IN ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS)