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Enhancing driving robot capabilities with precision and accuracy.
Product overview
AB Dynamics’ Path Following module (an optional feature for robot users) is a major enhancement to the capabilities of our driving robots and ADAS platforms. Utilising the GNSS inertial navigation systems in our robot-driven vehicles and ADAS platforms, it guides them along a pre-defined path with exceptional accuracy and repeatability. With over 20 years of experience, the latest Path Following algorithm has been used for high-performance testing, including steady-state cornering, double lane-changes, complete laps of the Silverstone race circuit, and a high speed, high precision crash test for NASCAR.
Key features
AB Dynamics’ Path Following software uses feedback from GNSS inertial navigation systems to make real-time corrections to the vehicle or ADAS platform’s steering, precisely guiding it along a desired path, even at high speeds and high levels of lateral acceleration.
- Can be used for short duration tests, such as the ISO lane-change, and for long tests such as multiple laps of a durability circuit
- Offers significant improvements in vehicle testing accuracy and repeatability, leading in turn to cost and time saving
- Lateral position accuracy up to 2 cm or better (in a straight line).
- Can be used on any suitable test track without need for any modification to the track surface
- Can be used safely and reliably at speeds of over 200 km/h
- Maintains stability through precision steering even in the event of over-steer
- Multiple vehicles can be synchronised along complex paths using GNSS time
- Software is available in modules, each tailored for a specific type of testing
- Compatible with major IMU providers including OxTS, GeneSys and Racelogic
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Robot Controller™ Software
The core application at the heart of all our track test solutions.
Product overview
Robot Controller (RC) Software is the core application in AB Dynamics’ Track Applications Suite which manages the planning, execution, and review of track tests across our entire range of driving robots and ADAS test objects. With this suite, users can perform a wide range of customisable and pre-defined tests, from simple sine-dwell manoeuvres to complex ADAS scenarios. The software’s flexibility makes it suitable for a variety of track testing needs and it’s an integral part of our product ecosystem. Latest features of RC include a library of Euro NCAP preconfigured test scenarios, with support for over 150 of the latest test cases.
Track applications
Explore the dynamic capabilities of the Track Applications Suite. Each app and tool is meticulously designed to enhance precision, streamline workflows, and deliver unparalleled control in your testing environment.
- Scenario Generator allows for easy programming of test scenarios, simultaneous planning of paths and events for multiple vehicles, and a built-in scenario playback feature for visualising interactions between paths and test objects.
- Synchro is an optional advanced control capability for multi-object tests. Synchro coordinates up to 16 test objects, ensuring the test vehicle and other ADAS targets are synchronised throughout the scenario, even at varying speeds. This ensures a smooth and efficient testing process.
- Special Groups, a tool in RC, is a library of preconfigured test groups. covering Euro NCAP, C-NCAP, UN, NHTSA, and JNCAP test requirements.
- Post Processor for Special Groups in RC automatically provides real-time pass/fail results without user input, enabling immediate feedback during testing. It also generates detailed test-by-test reports.
- AB Grapher is a standalone application that enhances the review process during test execution by enabling parallel data analysis. It offers a comprehensive list of data channels for plotting, with configurable functions such as multi-axes plotting, filtering, and overlay, providing a versatile tool for in-depth data visualisation and analysis.
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Synchro™
Coordination and synchronisation of multiple test objects for unrivalled testing efficiency.
Product overview
Synchro is our patented communication language used to control and coordinate the timing of test object movements. It uses our dependable wireless telemetry system, TrackFi PowerMesh, together with our advanced Robot Controller Software to guarantee perfect synchronisation of multiple objects, even along complex paths and at varying speeds.
Synchro captures real-time vehicle-to-object data between a test vehicle and other objects. This enables any combination of systems (robot-controlled vehicles, ADAS platforms and driverless vehicles) to be coordinated and synchronised to the test vehicle. Available in Lite or Full variants, it enables every run to be conducted repeatably and accurately – making track testing much more efficient.
Key features
Synchro offers a common interface for all track test systems, enabling the synchronisation of up to 16 objects, integration and cross-compatibility with major GNSS/IMU suppliers, and multi-directional control for complex traffic scenarios, all contributing to efficient and accurate track testing.
- A common interface for all AB Dynamics’ track test systems
- Synchronisation for up to 16 objects
- Integration and cross-compatibility with major IMU suppliers including OxTS, GeneSys and Racelogic
- Up to 20 vehicle-to-object Synchro data channels logged
- Controls longitudinal range with optional drift correction steering
- Triggers events using any combination of Synchro data channels
- Multi-directional synchronised control for complex traffic scenarios
- Interface with RT Range and ADMA Delta
- Synchro Lite allows basic triggered control using just an IMU in the test vehicle
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Ground Traffic Control™
Enhanced safety, monitoring, and control of proving ground test traffic.
Product overview
Ground Traffic Control (GTC) manages complex testing scenarios by providing centralised monitoring, control, and coordination of test track traffic, including VRU platforms, GSTs, driverless vehicles human-driven vehicles.
Its versatility makes it ideal for a wide range of track testing applications, such as durability and misuse testing and multi-vehicle highway scenario testing. To ensure safety in mixed traffic scenarios, the system is equipped with collision detection and prevention, which slows robot-controlled vehicles and alerts human drivers. GTC enhances productivity and cooperation by having a customisable interface, multi-screen support, and role-based access.
Specifications
GTC is a revolutionary system for managing driverless misuse and durability applications and complex multi-vehicle testing scenarios.
Server dimensions
187 x 137 x 42 mm
Server weight
0.86 kg
Server temperature rating
Ambient operating temperature: 0 to +45 °C
Server power input
12V 2A supply provided by AB Dynamics
Max number of connected objects
24
Concurrent base station operators
6* (Operator and Viewer licences available)
Platforms supported
All AB Dynamics driving robots and Flex-0*
All AB Dynamics LaunchPad and GST products*
All AB Dynamics LaunchPad and GST products*
Installation suitability
Mobile base station – van, minibus, or car Permanent control tower
* PowerPMAC based
** custom solutions available for more operators
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