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Internship concept design for pedistrain and bicycle testing

Design a concept for pedestrian and bicycle testing in VeHIL

Internship at TNO, department Integrated Vehicle Safety in the field of mechatronic system design

 

Introduction

Advanced Driver Assistance (ADA) systems are increasingly becoming available in passenger vehicles. In general, this type of systems comprises one or more environment sensors such as radar, camera or lidar and a control algorithm that informs the driver or even autonomously influences the vehicle by means of the throttle and/or brakes. Examples of ADA systems are Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) and Forward Collision Warning (FCW). Current research concentrates on collision warning, collision mitigation and even collision avoidance [1 – 4].

The above development indicates a shift towards ADA systems that operate under critical traffic conditions and with different traffic participants next to only cars and trucks. As a consequence, the system complexity increases and at the same time dependability aspects such as reliability and availability are becoming much more important. The importance and magnitude of experimental tests therefore increases significantly. Inherently to the nature of the system to be tested, testing conditions are also becoming more critical with respect to safety of man and material. With these aspects in mind, a hardware-in-the-loop facility, called VeHIL, has been developed, which is capable of testing vehicles equipped with ADA systems.

 

Your assignment

The objective of this assignment is to determine a test concept how to test with pedestrian and bicycle dummies in VeHIL. The goal is to make concepts and also to perform hands on experiments to verify if the concepts work.  

The assignment is expected to follow the next project steps (methodical design):

1)       Set up the requirements regarding the testing system.

2)       Define different concepts.

3)       Select the most promising concepts, detail and test them.

4)       Write a report, draw conclusions and make recommendations towards the final design.

 

The timeline for this assignment is about 4 months.  We expect you to have a decent knowledge of mechatronical concepts, a drive to solve challenging problems and good communication skills.

 

Contact

John Vissers

Phone:                    088 86 62214

Email:                     john.vissers@tno.nl

 

Hanno Schouten

Phone:                    088 86 65792

Email:                     hanno.schouten@tno.nl

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