P5. CIDAUT
Introduction of the organization
Cidaut is a Technology Center that generates knowledge and applies research, development, and innovation to improve companies’ competitiveness and society’s general well-being.
Cidaut integrates capabilities, experts, and scientific and technological infrastructures, which allows it to address the entire value chain of the product or process, developing and transferring the technology to the market with significant competitive improvement.
Cidaut provides comprehensive technological solutions for the industry in general and, thanks to the multidisciplinary structure of our work teams, is capable of applying innovation in each of the processes that precede the appearance of a new product or the improvement of an existing one. Always with the flag of its competitive improvement. Cidaut acts in a coordinated manner from conception, characterization, materials design, simulation or prototype design to final validation.
Role in the project
Cidaut plays a key role in the development of ProtAct-Us project in the work package on “Development: Engineering Tools & Methods”, contributing with the rest of the involved partners to develop new methods to assess severe injuries with long-term consequences by implementing HBM and physical testing methodologies. Within this work package, Cidaut leads the task “Physical and Virtual Tests Procedures”, contributing to the development of procedures to design and evaluate safety systems for reducing injuries with long-term consequences in which virtual and physical methods will be combined. Cidaut also has a strong implication in the work package on “Integration: Countermeasures and Effectiveness” for the development of novel and efficient solutions to prevent long-term injuries under different load cases.
Cidaut is responsible for the coordination of actions on the road user group “Pedestrians” and will work on the analysis of injuries and development of countermeasures to avoid/minimize both children and adults’ long-term consequences on pedestrians caused for both primary impacts (against vehicles) and secondary impacts (against the ground or other objects). Cidaut will also work with virtual and physical ATDs and pediatric HBMs on the assessment and countermeasures development of injuries of children seated in the rear vehicle seats, considering more than one occupant and their potential interaction. Cidaut will also develop new methods to assess injuries with long-term consequences in the extremities based on experimental and simulation approaches, specifically focusing on the upper extremities considering a novel instrumented physical arm.