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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2012
Joseph Kelly, Lakewood, CA (US);
Peter Broen, Torrance, CA (US);
Jordan Silberling, Redondo Beach, CA (US);
Nenad Bozin, San Pedro, CA (US);
John Zellner, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (US);
Joseph Kelly, Lakewood, CA (US);
Peter Broen, Torrance, CA (US);
Jordan Silberling, Redondo Beach, CA (US);
Nenad Bozin, San Pedro, CA (US);
John Zellner, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (US);
Dynamic Research, Inc., Torrance, CA (US);
Abstract
A Guided Soft Target (GST) system and method provides a versatile test system and methodology for the evaluation of various crash avoidance technologies. This system and method can be used to replicate the pre-crash motions of the CP in a wide variety of crash scenarios while minimizing physical risk, all while consistently providing a sensor signature substantially identical to that of the item being simulated. The GST system in various example embodiments may comprise a soft target vehicle or pedestrian form removably attached to a programmable, autonomously guided, self-propelled Dynamic Motion Element (DME), which may be operated in connection with a wireless computer network. Specific geometries for the DME have been discovered that minimize the risk of the DME flipping up and hitting or otherwise damaging or disrupting the ride of typical test vehicles during impact of the test vehicles with the GST, all while minimizing the effect of the DME on the sensor signature of the GST.