Compensation Algorithm Development in Platform for Pedestrian ADAS Testing

Test procedures such as EuroNCAP, NHTSA’s FMVSS 127, and UNECE 152 all require specific pedestrian to vehicle overlaps. These overlap variations allow the vehicle differing amounts of time to respond to the pedestrian’s presence. In this work, a compensation algorithm was developed to be used with the STRIDE robot for Pedestrian Automatic Emergency Braking tests. The compensation algorithm uses information about the vehicle’s speed and position to determine whether the robot needs to move faster or slower in order to properly overlap the vehicle. Tests of the algorithm include two different methodologies for testing functionality and the use of a robotic test driver to vary the vehicle speed in a consistent manner.