In the area of crash safety and collision safety, increasing focus is being made on collision mitigation and active safety to reduce the occurrence of accidents, as opposed to simply relying on passive safety and reducing the impact of crashes. AEDesign has developed a testing platform that simulates the motion of various types of targets to test active safety systems. This platform is called the AVCASS (Autonomous Vehicle for the Certification of Active Safety Systems) and is a patent pending design.

The AVCASS test platform is an ultra-low profile overrun safe test tool able to provide full mobility to a range of test targets. An innovative drivetrain allows it to provide realistic movement to a variety of test targets ranging from Pedestrians to Balloon cars. Its controls system is fully autonomous with various programs allowing it to follow pre-programmed paths, resulting in a very user friendly system.

• Provides motion to the target dummy
• Able to withstand multiple over-runs at realistic test speeds
• Autonomous control and feedback*
• High run time allowing uninterrupted testing
• Causes no damage to test vehicle