Helping automotive companies gain the unfair advantage
The use of simulators by the automotive and motorsport industries is growing. Track and proving ground testing is expensive. Hire costs, transportation, consumable parts and testing time devour budgets and valuable management time. Circuit testing can be inconsistent at the best of times with changeable weather and track conditions. Moreover, the development of prototype vehicles, or tyres, for example, is an enormously costly business. Imagine if more settings were tested off line on a simulator first, and only the best performing models made it to the actual test?
Cruden driver-in-the-loop simulators offer the most realistic and accurate solution by interfacing a virtual model of the vehicle and its environment to a real driver. This enables engineers to test and adjust suspension, chassis, power train and tyre parameters - or compare and develop drivers - before the car even turns a wheel. It offers a genuine solution to reducing the development time of new cars, for less money. Cruden offers 6DOF technology in an affordable, competitive package.
Here is a selection of the ways in which simulators can benefit automotive businesses:
- Vehicle and component testing
- Cost reduction; pre-prototype testing and prototype build alternative
- Vehicle Ride and Handling
- Tyre development - prototype development and assessment
- HMI/Ergonomic assessment
- Engineer training in how to identify problems
- Software debugging
- Combining with 3D Cave for styling review
- Competitor assessment and benchmarking
- NVH assessment
To speak to someone about more ways in which we have helped achieve automotive engineering objectives, please contact us.
