State of the Art Passive Safety Testing and Solutions for AV Testing

Advances in Active Safety Testing and next Level Testing Environment

• Requirements for proving grounds to cover the variety of scenario-based testing
• Automated swarm test for reproducible representation of road users through standardized scenario description
• Test environment consisting of control center with safety concept, 5G communication, infrastructure sensors as well as target movers and robotic vehicles as traffic participants

• Test methods in an indoor test environment
• Controlled test manoeuvres with multiple objects
• New rain system
• Light simulator
• New custom developed targets: Car4 target and pedestrian dummy

Virtual Testing

• Virtual Testing is playing an increasing role in the introduction of novel safety systems for road vehicles. Innovations in restraint systems require assessments in a large number of load cases. Moreover, with the advances in automated driving, there is an interest in the assessment of alternate seating postures and how restraint systems can be optimized for each proposed posture. To evaluate all seating positions in all load cases, fast and reliable simulations play a key role.
• Simulations combining pre-crash manoeuvres followed by a crash have a long solve-time. Typically pre-crash phases of such simulations consume a larger amount of time. Moreover, for many analyses involving restraint system optimization, they may be redundant. Re-running entire simulations (pre-rash+crash) repeatedly may lead to unnecessarily prolonged studies for safety system assessment.
• How can Simcenter accelerate safety system development for alternate seating postures to the market?