Soft Pedestrian 360 adds safety and realism to pedestrian target testing

Soft Pedestrian 360 has been developed to support tests for improved sensor perception and categorisation as well as decrease the time and cost of testing through improved robustness.

To enhance the realism of the target the Soft Pedestrian 360 features articulation of the knee, hip, shoulder and neck. Actively articulated knees, enabling the hip and knee to move independently of each other, control the gait and allow a more varied range of movement to be reproduced.

Joseph Kelly, chief engineer at DRI told The Engineer that the continued development of active safety systems drives the need for more accurate and complete representations of pedestrians.

“Ultimately, it is not possible to know which attributes or characteristics of a pedestrian will be used by ADAS development engineers to categorise a given sensed object as a pedestrian,” he said. “Therefore, the most accurate representations of pedestrians are needed to help these engineers develop robust active safety systems and to test their efficacy in real world scenarios.  The actively controlled gait articulation and the optional arm and head articulations are just a few of the attributes available on the DRI Soft Pedestrian 360 to increase realism.”