Human subjects and the recently developed RID2 rear impact crash test dummy were exposed to a series of full scale, vehicle-to-vehicle crash tests.
As a consequence flight demonstration with full scale vehicle was required by both the Saturn and Centaur programs to build confidence that problems were addressed.
The main motivation of this virtual prototyping was to test different control techniques in an active suspension of a full scale vehicle model.
The proposed method was first verified by a mathematical benchmark example and a ten-bar truss design problem; and then it was applied to a more sophisticated design case of full scale vehicle structure for crashworthiness criteria.
In this framework, the development of small demonstrators is also foreseen to validate technological and operational aspects of full-scale vehicles and missions.
Full-scale vehicle manipulator equipment for handling a 4-ton blanket module has been fabricated and tested.
The system identification model was used to develop a preliminary controller, which was simulated under Matlab before beginning full-scale vehicle testing.
We probably have at least another half-decade before we get those efforts confirmed, but making a full-scale vehicle is a large project that's likely to generate further leaks.
