NHTSA is developing Pedestrian Crash Avoidance Mitigation (PCAM) test methods that potentially would be used for Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards or as part of the New Car Assessment Program conformation test. One of the challenges of this type of testing is that NHTSA cannot use human subjects to measure the vehicles ability to mitigate or avoid potential crashes. Up to this point NHTSA has used commercially available poseable test mannequins that are mounted to a pole and moved across the roadway via an overhead gantry or mannequins that are coupled to a platform and are pulled across the road surface. Moving forward NHTSA has decided to evaluate the vehicles PCAM performance using ground based propulsion to move the mannequin. This decision was made based on concerns that the pole used in conjuction with the gantry could cause PCAM systems to misclassify the mannequin.
NHTSA has a need for a commercially available product designed to move a test mannequin on a road surface. Specifically, a transportable ground based drive system for outdoor applications
capable of moving a payload (test mannequin and/or platform) across a flat surface without the aid of an overhead structure. The ground based drive system components should have minimal radar-cross-section and minimal optical features.
Pedestrian Crash Avoidance Related Links and Background
MotorVehicleRegs.COM: Pedestrian Crash Avoidance
June 30, 2014 NHTSA has published its final report documenting the work completed by the Crash Avoidance Metrics Partnership (CAMP) Crash Imminent Braking (CIB) Consortium during the project titled “Objective Tests for Forward Looking Pedestrian Crash Avoidance/Mitigation Systems.”
The report discusses minimum performance requirements and objective test procedures for pedestrian crash avoidance and mitigations systems. For a copy of the report, click here.
The report discusses minimum performance requirements and objective test procedures for pedestrian crash avoidance and mitigations systems. For a copy of the report, click here.
Table 2: Descriptions of PCAM Project Test Vehicles
Project Vehicle 1
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Project Vehicle 2
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Project Vehicle 3
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Sensing
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Fusion of Mid-/Long- Range Radar and Mono Vision Camera System
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Fusion of Mid-/Long- Range Radar and Stereo Vision Camera System
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Stereo Vision Camera
System
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PCAM
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Dynamic Brake Support
Crash Imminent Braking
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Dynamic Brake Support
Crash Imminent Braking
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Dynamic Brake Support
Crash Imminent Braking
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