Pre-crash test capabilities at VeHIL
FM Falke Hendriks, Jeroen Ploeg · TU/e Research Portal · 2008
In the last few years, the developments in the field of ADA systems shifted from comfort oriented systems to safety oriented systems.Consequently, the complexity of the systems, and thus the complexity of testing those systems, increased.This leads to a demand for reproducible, efficient and safe testing methods for ADA systems in general, and pre-crash systems in particular.A new method for evaluation of pre-crash systems is presented, consisting of TNO's Vehicle Hardware-in-the-Loop facility (VeHIL) and TNO's Crash Lab.This method, called VeHIL/Precrash, aims to support the development and verification of pre-crash systems, increasing the level of reproducibility, effectiveness and safety of the testing process.To this end, a test vehicle, positioned on a roller bench, is placed in a simulated traffic environment.In order to provide the test vehicle's environment sensor input, one of the simulated traffic participants is represented by a rail guided target vehicle, which is stopped by crumple tubes.