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6/29/2026

Test of Euro NCAP Scenarios With Virtual Test Drives

Automated Testing of AEB and FCW Functions with DYNA4

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Euro NCAP (European New Car Assessment Programme) plays a crucial role in evaluating vehicle safety, including Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) and FCW (Forward Collision Warning) systems. 

Virtual test driving with DYNA4 is the ideal way to prepare your function for Euro NCAP testing on the real test track. This allows you to test AEB and FCW functions in the simulation long before they are ready for series production and without real vehicle prototypes. 

NCAP Testing Challenges

Euro NCAP AEB and FCW tests involve consistent and reproducible tests with other road users such as vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians. These can only be carried out at great expense on a real test site.

  • Preparation of "balloon cars" and "articulated pedestrian targets" to avoid endangering real road users
  • Exact compliance with the test conditions, such as a dry, even, paved, level surface, temperature, brightness, wind and much more.
  • Of course, the test vehicle also has to be extensively prepared. 
    Read more in the NCAP Protocols
Image of Euro NCAP CCRb scenario simulated with DYNA4 together with a quotation from Richard Schram, Technical Director at Euro NCAP: He highlights the publication of Euro NCAP scenarios in ASAM OpenSCENARIO XML format and the role of virtual testing in supporting safer roads
NCAP CCRb scenario simulated with DYNA4

Advantages of Virtual Testing

  • Start easily: Use the fully pre-configured NCAP scenarios in DYNA4 for automated testing and reporting
  • Fail fast: Lower development costs through correction of malfunctions early in the ADAS/AD development process
  • Improve safety: Simulation of critical traffic and collision scenarios without harm
  • Be compatible: Use the NCAP scenarios from DYNA4 in the OpenSCENARIO standard format

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Euro NCAP Testing of AEB and FCW Functions with DYNA4

NCAP Testing with DYNA4: Key Features

  • Fully automated testing in DYNA4
    Predefined virtual test driving scenarios with parameter variations
  • NCAP VRU (Vulnerable Road Users) test protocol
    Collision scenarios with pedestrians and cyclists
  • NCAP C2C (Car-to-Car) test protocol
    Collision scenarios with vehicles
  • Implementation based on standards ASAM OpenDRIVE and OpenSCENARIO XML. 
  • Free download on Github
    OpenSCENARIO XML 1.3 files open source on Github (Link below)
  • OpenSCENARIO features
    Generate collisions using the OpenSCENARIO Synchronize Action, without pre-processing  
  • Integrate your function seamlessly
    As Simulink model, C-Code, FMU, AUTOSAR Code, or ECU
  • From MIL to SIL to HIL
    Complete reusability of scenario definitions in different execution environments
  • Automatic report generation
    Result evaluation based on the NCAP assessment protocols. See examples below.
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Felix Beygang
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