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Bosch honoured for rear-looking AEB
Safety system aimed at saving pedestrians wins Robert Bosch Australia a prestigious gongThe SAE-A has reserved the most highly prized of its 2014 Mobility Engineering Excellence awards for Robert Bosch Australia.
Bosch was formally recognised in the 'professional' category for its work developing a new autonomous emergency braking system that brings a reversing car to a halt automatically at the first sign of danger to a pedestrian crossing behind the car.
Employing ultrasonic and radar detection, the AEB-Rear system not only keeps pedestrians safe, but can reduce the likelihood of panel damage if the driver is at risk of reversing into any obstacle behind, including posts and parked cars. Bosch developed the system with export potential in mind.
Other award winners included Marc Russouw of Monash University, Autotest Product's Automonitor system, Tyler Plowright of the University of Newcastle and the consortium behind vMould – a web-enabled software package to automate plastic injection mould design and production.
The Automonitor system for heavy commercial vehicles integrates tachographs, GPS and other vehicle monitoring systems into the one unit, which also features a roll-over prediction system to alert the driver once the vehicle's centre of gravity, mass and speed point to the vehicle rolling.
Russouw was highly commended for his project, 'Development of a Vehicle and Tyre Model for Formula SAE', and Plowright won gold for his study in the aerodynamics of Australian coal trains.
Pictured: Nicholas Platt (right), RACV Acting Manager of Vehicle Engineering presenting the award to Mark Anderson (left) of Bosch
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