Inflatable Airbag Vest For The Motorcyclists

Abstract

Motorcyclists are more vulnerable on the road and are more likely to be injured or killed. Motorcycles are hard to control, difcult for other drivers to see, and crashes often put the rider’s life in danger. Dozens of motorcyclists’ lives could be saved every year if airbag jackets are made compulsory to use. Along with helmet, a jacket/vest will enhance the safety of a rider. The ultimate objective of our project is to design airbag vest/jacket for the bikers. The airbag vest helps the biker to prevent accidents, injuries, and death. Vests are attached with an airbag to protect motorcycle riders against injuries. In the event of an accident the rider’s airbag will inflate within milliseconds to protect rider’s body from severe injuries. The airbag jacket provides extra protection to the most parts of the body including the spine, neck, collar- bone and ribs. In this report we, with the help of electronic modules such as a microcontroller and some sensors like gyroscope and accelerometer will effectively judge when to activate the inflatable vest in order to safeguard the torso of the rider from potentially life-threatening injuries. We have designed an algorithm that takes input reading from sensors and incase of an abnormal readings, gives an output to a dc motor that inturn opens a valve that allows the escape of CO2 from high pressure environment inside the cannister to a low pressure environment which is the vest