Development of Ultra High Temperature Resistance Polymeric Nanocomposites for Long Distance Space Applications

Abstract

Automotive headlights are one of the active safety devices of an automobile and is used primarily in night-time driving to avoid accidents. About 55% of accidents occur at night though the total driving is about only 25% at night.In this project, the aforementioned problem is addressed by simulation of curve lights feature of an Adaptive Front-lighting System (AFS) in a software tool called IPG CarMaker. The virtual vehicle, road path and vehicle motion are setup in the simulation tool in the parameters section. The existing conventional light system of the virtual vehicle do not provide illumination in the right direction on curve roads. So the Adaptive Front lighting System (AFS) is implemented in the virtual vehicle using the maneuver commands used in the software. This provides curve lights from the headlight of the vehicle model to negotiate the curve easily. The AFS is simulated in the software using the active lights feature in the IPG-carmaker. In this simulation project the angle of the headlights is varied by using the steering wheel input rather unlike other systems which use sensor to determine the radius of road curve and adjust the headlight angle. The functioning of headlight during cornering for various steering ratios were simulated and values for beam angle for each steering ratio are obtained. From the results of the simulation the relation among steering wheel angle, steering angle and beam angle was obtained. The AFS is found to deliver best performance at a steering ratio of 19.09 in the simulation. newline