Agneta Sjögren
Intelligent Vehicle Technologies, Volvo
Technology Corporation
Agneta Sjögren holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Chalmers University, and started working for Volvo immediately after graduation. Her early focus was on driver assistance systems; developing filters, target trackers and control algorithms. Over the last few years her main responsibility has been as the project manager of INSAFES, a PReVENT subproject including 10 partners with a total of about 350 man-months. More recently she has taken responsibility for coordinating activities in the area of integration and automation within Volvo Technology.

Creating a cost-effective integrated safety system
To prepare for future cost-effective and usable safety systems there are several issues that need to be addressed. First of all, the number of components. It is essential that the number of sensors and other components is kept low in order to save cost. This means that sensors must be able to support multiple applications, HMI devices should be flexible and the software should be portable between different ECUs. Second, since we are mainly discussing safety systems, reliability is of the highest importance.