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Millbrook grows ADAS technology test capabilities

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The testing centre is developing its facilities for testing these cutting-edge technologies in the UK. In addition to modifications to existing road and test track infrastructure, Millbrook is making a significant investment in high-precision instrumentation and soft targets that allow contact without damage. It has recently been running a number of demonstrations.
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Millbrook's facilities are designed to allow a wide range of controlled and semi-controlled driving scenarios to be set up on private roads and test tracks. They test systems including Autonomous Emergency Braking, Adaptive Cruise Control, Autonomous Parking and Lane Support, and those found in CAVs. The scenarios cover both prescribed tests, such as those found within EuroNCAP protocols, and customer-specific requirements. Much testing is carried out to customer-specified procedures for benchmarking and internal sign-off purposes.

Active safety features help to increase vehicle safety by assisting the driver in maintaining their desired course, warning them of any potential collisions, and interacting to avoid collisions if the driver has not taken action; similarly, driverless vehicles have to interact with obstacles in numerous scenarios in the real world. Millbrook's test facilities cater for both.

The test, development, and certification activities carried out at Millbrook make use of a wide range of high-accuracy instrumentation and soft targets. This allows tests to be conducted with a high level of repeatability and gives each customer the ability to take the vehicle's or software's capabilities to their limits in a safe and secure environment. In addition to Millbrook's physical environments, its high-definition, 1 mm surface accuracy digital road model provides customers with a virtual environment for faster development.

Darren Williams, Chief Engineer, Vehicle at Millbrook, said: "We are experiencing a period in which the motor industry is working towards greater change than at any point in the previous 100 years. Whether it is alternative powertrains or active safety systems and driverless vehicles, the technologies being developed today are changing the face of our relationships with transport. Millbrook is proud to be at the forefront of the testing and development work taking place in the UK to enable these technologies."

Millbrook has worked hard to ensure that it has the best data acquisition systems for customer's ADAS testing requirements. The system allows for all signals to be recorded and time aligned on a single data file, so no time consuming post-test data alignment is required. It is possible to record inertial and navigational parameters with 1 cm positional accuracy. Distances between test vehicle and target, time to collision, lateral and angular offset errors, and data from any other sensors can all be displayed live.


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