A soft target movement platform 181 for carrying a soft target, typically for use in testing of ADAS (advanced driver assistance systems), has first and drive motors 187, 191 driving first and second driven wheels 185, 189 and a steering assembly 101. Steering assembly 101 has a steering motor (47, Figure 3) actively turning an undriven wheel 43 about a steering axis. Platform 181 is steerable by a differential torque from drive motors 187, 191 to respective driven wheels 185, 189 with steering assistance provided by turning undriven wheel 43 about the steering axis by the steering motor. Undriven wheel 43 may be moveable between a compression position and a rebounded position and biased to the rebounded position. A steering assembly and method of operation are also provided.
Soft target movement platform
2024-04-03
Patent
Electronic Resource
English