"In&motion": creation of a chair around airbag-type personal protection devices

Signing of the agreement for the creation of the "In&motion" chair in the presence of Gilles Roussel, President of Gustave Eiffel University, Bruno Marroni, Director of Protisvalor, the development subsidiary of Aix-Marseille University and Rémi Thomas, Pierre-François Tissot and Valentin Honoré, Co-founders of In&motion

In&motion, the Laboratoire de Biomécanique Appliquée (LBA), the Laboratoire Mécanismes d'Accidents (LMA) and the Unité Mixte de Recherche Epidémiologique et de Surveillance Transport Travail Environnement (UMRESTTE) have joined forces to create the "In&motion" chair for a period of five years.

The creation agreement was signed on Monday, November 7, 2022 in Annecy at the In&motion offices by Mr. Gilles Roussel, President of Gustave Eiffel University, Mr. Bruno Marroni, Director of Protisvalor, the development subsidiary of Aix-Marseille University, and Rémi Thomas, Pierre-François Tissot, and Valentin Honoré, co-founders of In&motion. The signing will also take place in the presence of the research teams and management of the Transport, Health and Safety Department and the laboratories that will be involved in this ambitious research project, namely the Applied Biomechanics Laboratory (LBA), the Accident Mechanisms Laboratory (LMA) and the Epidemiological and Surveillance Mixed Research Unit for Transport, Work and Environment (UMRESTTE).

The creation of this chair, whose activities will extend over a period of 5 years, will facilitate the exchange of expertise and know-how between the partners and promote the implementation of specific research projects dealing with airbag-type personal protective devices. More specifically, this work will deal with the development, evaluation and optimization of intelligent inflatable devices for the protection of transport users, sportsmen or individuals in their daily life.

To do so, In&motion teams will work with experts in epidemiology, accidentology and biomechanics in order to understand the nature of injuries and the fate of victims of motorized two-wheeler accidents, to study the scenarios at the origin of accidents, to model human bodies in order to describe the genesis of injuries, and to propose avenues of innovation and optimization of inflatable protections.

This collaboration aims to deepen the research work carried out by In&motion and the Gustave Eiffel University, which began nearly 8 years ago.