Andreas Moser, Hermann Steffan
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Lecture
2015
24. EVU Conference, Edinburgh
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The distribution of active safety systems in modern cars is continuously increasing. Systems like ESP (electronic stability programs), braking assistants, ACC (adaptive cruise control), emergency brake assistants and others may significantly influence the vehicle dynamics in an accident. It is important for the accident reconstructionist to be able to analyse the effect of these systems. For this reason a modular system has been implemented into PC-Crash, which enables the user of the program to simulate active systems in a block based manner. This gives the user the flexibility to build and modify active systems according to the system to model.
In the second part of the paper the results of driving tests with cars having active systems are compared with the results of the simulation.
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