A braking device system for a test pendulum arrangement to perform crash test dummy certifications, the braking device system including a braking device configured to brake a moving pendulum, on which a head and neck assembly of a crash test dummy is capable of being arranged, in a lower braking region, wherein the braking device includes a plunger configured to be actuated axially by a motor arrangement which is designed to come into contact with the pendulum in a defined braking region and to brake the pendulum by a braking force exerted by the plunger.

The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and a method for an impact test, which can easily accelerate an impact body at a desired acceleration using an air pressure and an electromagnetic force. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, an apparatus for an impact test includes a clamping unit configured to fix a specimen, and an impact unit disposed to be spaced apart from the clamping unit and configured to accelerate and launch an impact body to collide with the specimen by an air pressure and an electromagnetic force.

The present teachings generally provide for an overrunable test vehicle for dynamic vehicle testing of advanced driver assistant systems along a driving plane. The overrunable test vehicle comprising a chassis with a first end and a second end and including a mounting area configured to receive a soft target, and defining an axis of rotation transverse to the driving plane between the first end and the second end, four drive mechanisms coupled with the chassis, each drive mechanism having an electric motor with a drive wheel, and a control system coupled with the electric motors, and configured to control speed and torque of each of the electric motors, forming a torque vector that rotates the overrunable test vehicle about the axis of rotation to a target rotation angle. The axis of rotation is a location between the two drive mechanisms that the chassis turns about when the torque vector is applied to the chassis of the overrunable test vehicle.

The disclosure provides an excitation device capable of suppressing resonance during excitation and reducing the size in a vertical direction. An excitation device (1) includes front and rear mounting plates (5 and 6) having openings (5g and 6g); a base plate (8) arranged below the mounting plates (5 and 6), slope parts (3) to which the mounting plates (5 and 6) and the base plate (8) are fixed; a first roller (17) and a second roller (16) located below the openings (5g and 6g); a hydraulic actuator (12) having a hydraulic cylinder (12a) that excites the second roller (16) in a front-rear direction of a wheel (W); and a bracket (12c) having a lower end fixed to the base plate (8) and an upper end fixed to the mounting plates (5 and 6), and supporting the hydraulic cylinder (12a).

A coupling design for an anthropomorphic test device includes mounting a base member to an anatomical component. The base member has opposing inner and outer surfaces and a peripheral edge connecting the base inner and outer surfaces with the base inner surface defining a first cavity. At least one base connector is coupled to the base inner surface and is at least partially disposed within the first cavity. The anatomical component has opposing inner and outer surfaces and a peripheral edge connecting the component inner and outer surfaces with the component inner surface defining a second cavity. At least one component connector is coupled to the anatomical component. The mounting is such that the component connector engages the base connector and the component and base peripheral edges abut and wherein the base and component outer surfaces align to define a smooth transition between the base and component outer surfaces.

The present invention relates to a vehicle (100), in particular a bicycle, for performing tests for a driver assistance system. The vehicle (100) has a base body (101) and at least one strut (102), which is formed to be dimensionally stable without influence of an impact force, which is generatable upon a collision of the vehicle (100) with a collision body, and is elastically deformable upon influence of the impact force. The strut (102) is connected to the base body (101) such that upon influence of the impact force the strut (102) is non-destructively detachable from the base body (101).

A mobile fixture configured to move a structure in a manufacturing environment may include a motorized base configured to move on a surface and a support system connected to the motorized base, the support system being configured to support the structure, the support system being configured to position the structure along at least one of an X-axis, a Y-axis, and a Z-axis, the support system being configured to position the structure about the Z-axis, and the support system being configured to provide free rotation of the structure about at least one of the X-axis and the Y-axis.

A collision performance evaluation test with few variations in test results with high accuracy in which a complicated phenomenon that actually occurs can be reproduced in a simple manner by considering the history of deformation in both the press forming and a collision. A collision performance evaluation test method for a metal sheet material for an automobile body is characterized in that a press working apparatus first forms a flat test specimen made of a metal sheet material to be tested into a V shape by primary bending, a bending test apparatus then deforms, by secondary bending, the test specimen formed by the primary bending in a direction intersecting with the primary bending direction, and a bending load and a bending stroke for the test specimen during the secondary bending deformation are recorded and evaluated.

A mobile platform structured for mounting a soft target thereon is provided. The mobile platform includes a self-propelled drive unit configured to move along a ground surface responsive to a control signal. The mobile platform also includes a hardened mobile platform control module coupled to the drive unit so as to move with the drive unit. The mobile platform also includes a sacrificial body structured and coupled to the drive unit so as to move along the ground surface with the drive unit.

A movable test device for dynamic vehicle testing, intended to support a target object for the test vehicle, having a frame with a support plate arranged to receive the target object; a plurality of running gears, each having at least one wheel, arranged to roll on a rolling surface formed by a test track; and propulsion means linked to at least one of the wheels in order to propel the device on the rolling surface. The test device includes a damper arranged to damp a relative movement between at least one of the wheels and the support plate.