Pedestrian Headforms

The pedestrian spherical headforms are a series of partial spheres designed to be launched at the windshields and hoods of cars to measure accelerations to the head of a pedestrian in a vehicle-to-pedestrian impact for calculating the HIC. The launching device is a robotic arm equipped with a magnetic or mechanical means of attachment and release. Each headform consists of a spherical skull and cap skin with a removable flat cap plate at the back blended into the spherical shape. Provision is made for accelerometers to be mounted to the cap at the geometric center of the sphere. Developed by Humanetics in cooperation with TNO, Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, Delft, and WG17 of the EEVC, European Enhanced Vehicle Safety Committee. Based on WG10 headforms used in EuroNCAP. WG17 is the Pedestrian Safety Working Group.