Emergency Steering Systems – Controllability Investigations with the Vehicle in the Loop

Emergency steering interventions are the progression of existing emergency braking functions and subject to current research initiatives like UR:BAN (Manstetten et al., 2013) [1]. Such systems are designed to potentially prohibit accidents, even if it is too late to brake to a standstill. Otherwise, such interventions with a lateral component introduce new challenges to controllability assessment. The Vehicle in the Loop (VIL) is a combination of a test track vehicle and a driving simulation offering new methodological access to controllability aspects (Berg & Farber, 2015) [2].