Ansible Motion and MdynamiX have established a partnership to enhance the development of steering, braking and advanced driver assistance systems. They hope to enable engineers to experience and evaluate vehicle systems early and often during the development process by combining real, deployable hardware and software with virtual assessment capabilities.
Ansible Motion is already experiencing steady demand for its driving simulators from OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers across China, Korea, the USA and Europe. Thanks to the versatility and capabilities of its DIL simulators, engineers are finding new ways to refine and validate vehicle features much earlier in the development phase.
This collaboration addresses the need to calibrate real steering and braking systems without access to physical vehicles. “Prototype vehicles often arrive too late in a development program, or with restrictive scheduling constraints that limit the time available for fine-tuning the attributes that are crucial to establishing brand identities,” said Dan Clark, managing director of Ansible Motion.
MdynamiX’s steering and wet braking solutions offer HIL capabilities that can be integrated into Ansible Motion’s DIL simulators. The realistic feedback from this provides engineers with a simulation environment. Furthermore, it helps with preliminary calibration and implementation of electric power steering (EPS) and electronic stability program (ESP) systems.
MdynamiX CEO Professor Bernhard Schick added, “With our end-to-end MIL/SIL/HIL solutions, we create the world’s best steering feel, taking Ansible Motion’s driving simulators to a new level. Especially when classical MIL/SIL/HIL simulation reaches its limits and the subjective impression and tuning competence of the test driver is the next step, the driving simulator with real components generates a significant advantage. The result is earlier, better decisions and faster development.”