High Speed Surrogate Vehicle Development

In order to keep down the costs in the automotive industry, it is decided to simulate dangerous scenarios that could occur in traffic, either virtually or by means of custom-made vehicles. This report addresses the development of a new type of surrogate vehicle called High Speed Surrogate Vehicle. This project has been carried out to prevent today's issues with surrogate vehicles and to enable an increase in testing efficiency, without increasing the risk of damaging test vehicles and injuries on personnel in an eventual collision.The report presents the surrogate vehicles area of use and its technical components. Reflection measurements have been made to compare radar characteristic between a real car and surrogate target and construction work has been carried out to manufacture fasteners for attaching the new High Speed Surrogate Vehicle. In the last phase of this degree project, final performance tests and collision tests were performed to verify its drive-and collision ability against test cars