News from 2013

ABD has produced a new video showing some of the manoeuvres necessary for autonomous emergency braking (AEB) testing. In it, a vehicle is driven along a straight-line path using ABD's path-following software, and a constant distance is maintained to the target vehicle ahead, using ABD's CBAR (combined brake and accelerator robot). 

Vehicle Dynamics International magazine has announced the winners of its annual awards for 2013. ABD is a previous winner of the award for Development Tool of the Year and features once again in the winning entry.

In 2012 ABD supplied a Combined Brake and Accelerator Robot to the Transport Research Center Inc. in Ohio, USA, facilitating the development of Forward Collision Warning (FCW) and Lane Departure Warning (LDW) test methodology on behalf of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Europe's largest automobile club has taken delivery of a new robot system from ABD which will be used for Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) testing. ADAC, a core member of EuroNCAP, will be using the SR15 steering robot and CBAR combined pedal robot as key equipment for this major new area of NCAP testing.

ABD robots take key role in the development of major new EuroNCAP test procedure.

ABD participated in a recent project to evaluate the use of steering robots for winter testing, with particular focus on path following on low-friction surfaces. The project was in collaboration with Luleå University of Technology in Sweden and coincided with a presentation and demonstration at the SATS seminar.