ADAS Automatic Emergency Braking strategies: data analysis and benchmarking

New concepts such as autonomous driving and advanced driver assistance systems abruptly entered into the automotive field. Thus an analysis of these new systems is needed to better understand the strategies adopted in critical emergency situations. This is, partly, the goal of this thesis which has been developed in collaboration with the proving ground of ASC (Automotive Safety Centre). The data it provided was collected throughout years of testing of a variety of different vehicles and was analysed to evaluate both the consistency and the comfort of automatic emergency braking (AEB) systems with the goal of obtaining a benchmarking tool. The proposed study used the minimisation of the jerk as the core parameter to evaluate the comfort of the AEB which was then compared to a non-critical and comfortable type of braking.