The use of automated assistance and driving functions is increasingly helping to increase road safety in everyday life, but also requires a cross-vehicle model examination with regard to the design, condition, function and effect over the entire vehicle service life. How can an efficient testing technology be developed and which testing tools are used?
Under the coordination of FSD Fahrzeugsystemdaten GmbH, the BMVI-funded project “ErVast” is working with other partners to develop a test procedure for assistance systems and automated driving functions in vehicles, which is to be used during regular general inspections. Existing test protocols and evaluated accident scenarios will serve as the basis for comprehensive testing of the functions.
As part of this traffic accident research project, VUFO is working on the derivation of test scenarios based on real accident data. In a first step, various accident scenarios are analyzed and grouped on the basis of the GIDAS database from all traffic events. The focus of the project is on accidents in urban areas involving passenger cars. Further dynamic and environmental analyses are carried out for these accidents in order to subsequently identify relevant parameters (e.g. position, speed, accelerations of those involved) for a test scenario. Based on the relevant parameters, exemplary test scenarios are transferred to CarMaker as well as OpenDRIVE and OpenSCENARIO. Based on the resulting prototypical test scenario pool, vehicle model-specific tests with the necessary test setups can be selected.