Post impact braking verification in motion platform simulator

Abstract

The goal of this thesis is to develop a test method and to apply it on a new safety function named Post Impact Braking (PIB) on different vehicle simulator platforms. The aim of this function is to avoid multiple events accident, so that the car starts braking as fast as possible to avoid a subsequent collision after a first impact. The PIB function is tested with different types of accidents on the Chalmers simulator S2 with motion in order to understand and quantify how a driver can react during and after the impact, and also how efficient this function can be. The main advantage of the simulator is that there is no need of any driver model. It is found out that the PIB function is beneficial in most of the situations combined with an ABS intervention.