Modelling head injury due to unmanned aircraft systems collision: Crash dummy vs human body

Borrdephong Rattanagraikanakorn*, Michiel Schuurman, Derek I. Gransden, Riender Happee, Christophe De Wagter, Alexei Sharpanskykh, Henk A.P. Blom

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Abstract

Recent developments in the concept of UAS operations in urban areas have led to risk concerns of UAS collision with human. To better understand this risk, head and neck injuries due to UAS collisions have been investigated by different research teams using crash dummies. Because of the limitations in biofidelity of a crash dummy, head injury level for a crash dummy impact may differ from the human body impact. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to investigate differences in head and neck injuries subject to UAS collision between an often-used Hybrid III crash dummy and a human body. To perform such investigation, multibody system (MBS) impact models have been used to simulate UAS impacts on validated models of the Hybrid III crash dummy and the human body at various impact conditions. The findings show that the Hybrid III predicts similar head and neck injury compared to the human body when UAS collides horizontally from front and rear. However, the Hybrid III over-predicts head injury due to horizontal side impact. Moreover, under vertical drop and 45 degree elevated impact of UAS, the Hybrid III under-predicts head injury, and over-predicts neck injury.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)400-413
Number of pages14
JournalInternational Journal of Crashworthiness
Volume27
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020

Keywords

  • crash dummy
  • human
  • impact
  • injury
  • UAS

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