20th PraxisConference - Looking back on the Evolution of VRU Protection

Current Euro NCAP Active Safety Test Procedures for Vulnerable Road Users 2025 and Outlook to 2026

• Euro NCAP VRU 2025 ADAS Assessments
• BASt‘s Test Equipment & Test Track
• Detailed Look Into Test Protocol Passenger Cars
• Euro NCAP Test Protocol 2026

aPLI Round Robin

• Execution of comparative tests in at least 4 laboratories with at least 9 different impactors on a generalized test frame
• Preparation of the test results with regard to the current Euro NCAP evaluation scheme
• Initial investigations into the causes of scattering

VW Proactive Pedestrian Protection: AEB based Reversible Bonnet

• Combining AEB and active bonnet
• Integrated reversibility
• System timing in pedestrian crash event

The Technical Background behind the Realization of a Multiple Reusable DPPS in the current VW ID.7

• Kinematics studies and the basics of the system
• Technical realization of the system integration
• Simulations and test results

PRAXIS: Laboratory & Proving Ground of the German Federal Highway and Transport Research Institute (BASt)

• Vehicle mark-up with a focus on the windscreen impact area
• Impact test with an aPLI
• Demos active safety
• Demo Biofidelic Dummy

PRAXIS: Analysis and Discussion of Pedestrian Protection Measures of Current Vehicles

• Audi A6 e-tron
• Ford Capri
• KIA EV3
• Mercedes-Benz CLA
• Mini Countryman
• Volkswagen ID.7
• VOLVO EX90

Windscreen Fracture Behaviour during Component and Full Scale Dummy Tests for Passive Pedestrian Safety

• Current legal assessment criteria
• Comparison of impactor and full scale dummy tests
• Applicability and ideas for a possible way forward

Windscreen Fracture Behavior

• NCAP requirements
• Euro NCAP vs Latin NCAP
• Practical example

News from Euro NCAP

Virtual Testing (VT) in VRU Safety – an OEM Perspective

• Classification of VT
• VT Application today and future
• Challenges
• Fields of research

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Development of a Thorax Impaktor

• Thorax impactor
• Flat front vehicles
• Pedestrian protection tests

Development and Validation of Thoracic Impactor for Pedestrian Collision

• Accident Investigation and Injury Analysis ​
• ​Design philosophy of the impactor​
• ​Biofidelity verification of the impactor​

Volkswagen Jetta: Challenges in the Development of the North America Project due to Safety Requirements

• Volkswagen Jetta: History and commitment to safety
• US NCAP: Current and new requirements
• Challenges in the implementation of VRU requirements

AI-based Motion Reconstruction to Support Validation

• AI based motion tracking of impactors
• Heatmap prediction --> Supervised Learning & Training of AI model
• Processing of trajectories
• Camera Calibration
• 2D reconstruction for FE model validation