APPLUS SERVICES, S.A. The vocation at Applus+ to go beyond standards encourages us to keep innovating and adopting new technologies that promote the digitalisation of the company in a new scenario in which digital solutions will lead the way toward competitiveness and sustainability.
This pursuit allows us to be recognised as a trusted partner and an expert in digital solutions within the TIC sector as we keep searching for ways to improve safety. With that goal in mind, Applus+ IDIADA participates in EVADE 2022, an ongoing project to standardise testing of emergency braking and collision avoidance systems like AES (Autonomous Emergency Steering) and ESS (Emergency Steering Support) using digital solutions.
Mixing virtual simulation and physical testing, Applus+ is researching a method to monitor the performance of steering and evasive systems based on driver's behaviour when these emergency systems are activated, analysing both the vehicle and the driver's reactions to determine how good or safe are active safety systems.
This combination of physical and virtual processes is essential to define testing methodologies of safety systems, as simulators are cost-efficient testing methods for manufacturers, allowing repetition of tests, control of weather conditions and scenarios and infinite simulations and situations at a much lower cost and in shorter time.
The project activities start by an accidentology study to set the base. During the project, research will be carried out in the driving simulator, to understand driver behaviour under unexpected circumstances. The same test will be complemented with test track activities, in order to validate simulator studies.
A project developed alongside the key agents of the field
This new digital solution under development offers guidelines to the manufacturers on system design and HMI (Human Machine Interphase) design, indicating what type of alerts can be integrated in their vehicles to improve the driving experience, as well as information about the driver's preferences regarding the use of these security systems and how they would use them.
This thorough understanding of the driver's reaction to automated emergency systems is crucial to every agent in the field. Unification and standardization of these emergency braking systems among the different automotive manufacturers, with the p
articipation of consumer associations, will enable the automotive industry to align its approach on active safety features and to move forward in the same direction toward a better future.
At the same time, the use of new technologies based on these insights will reinforce the safety of vehicles. There is also an increasing need for regulation, as they will be come mandatory in the long term, favouring safe driving and the safety of the drivers themselves.
EVADE is structured as a collaborative R&D project. IDIADA is the project coordinator and works in cooperation with 22 other partners, leaders in the automotive industry.
The project focus points are emergency steering manoeuvres, head-on situations and intersection crossing scenarios, these last ones being inherited from the preceding project, the Intersection 2020 Project.
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