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Optimizing Calibration Data Management

With the efficient Calibration Data Management System AVL CRETA 6™

CRETA is a calibration data lifecycle management system designed for the calibration of all vehicle control units. It supports and facilitates your agile calibration process by helping engineers perform their tasks faster and more efficiently.

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Mobility is advancing rapidly, unlocking new possibilities. For the automotive world, this results in a significant increase in mechatronic systems, the rising importance of software as added value and the electrification of powertrains. In addition, the integration of vehicles into cyber-physical systems is advancing, along with the development of ADAS (Automated Driver Assistance Systems) and AD (Automated Driving) features. Thus, software-defined vehicles (SDVs) represent the next evolutionary but complex step in the automotive industry. Proper tuning and streamlined asset management of embedded software is essential to leverage new technologies fully, requiring reproducible and consistent calibration for every vehicle variant.  

AVL has recognized the signs of the times and developed AVL CRETA, a flexible calibration data lifecycle management system for all vehicle controls. This system supports and enhances the agile calibration process, enabling engineers to perform their tasks reliably and efficiently. 

Managing the increasing number of embedded SW Functions in a modern vehicle has become a key challenge. Another hurdle in today's vehicle development is addressing the various variants for different markets, which must be developed in even shorter cycles. Moreover, customers and governments have high expectations regarding comfort, driving pleasure, cyber security, safety, and emissions. Increasing system complexity heavily increases the number of calibration parameters. Errors must be corrected immediately upon detection to avoid disrupting the release schedule.


Therefore, the need to deliver high-quality datasets on time is a significant challenge in managing the multitude of variants in the calibration process. Expert teams are usually responsible for the parameterization of the control software, working in simulation environments, on test benches, and on test tracks. Throughout this process, numerous challenges can arise. CRETA for calibration data management considers following critical factors: 

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Calibration Variant Management

Major tasks are learning from historical data, storing templates, and automatically checking the consistency of different variants for outliers and calibration errors. 

 

Traceability with Adjustable Workflows

Calibration engineers must quickly find the right targets and trace recent results to ensure their calibrations are correctly integrated into the appropriate vehicle variant release. They also need to adapt workflows to meet organizational and process needs.

Automation and Connectivity

Fast development cycles are heavily increasing the requirements for digital automation and connectivity with other systems, such as integration into modern DevOps Pipelines for the baseline for successful SDV development.  

CRETA, a calibration data lifecycle management system, is designed to calibrate all vehicle controls. It can be smoothly integrated into the existing tool landscape and facilitates an agile calibration process by helping engineers perform their tasks faster and more efficiently. The development of projects and the data status of each variant is visualized, and managing, editing, organizing, and securely storing sensitive calibration data is now more efficient than ever. Engineers can also ensure that all parameters have been calibrated and checked for correctness by integrating CRETA into DevOps Pipelines. AVL addresses the issue of time-consuming decentralized data transmission and information exchange in projects. 

As a centralized data management system, CRETA allows data managers to verify that all parameters match the defined series production values and are correctly assigned to the correct vehicle revision.  It can be used for the calibration of numerous domains.

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Conflict-Free Data Merging & Validation With Full Compliance

Enabling a seamless import of calibration data into a central data management system, fully compliant with IT security, auditability, information security, and ISO standards.

Enhanced Reporting for Shorter Release Cycles

Problem areas can be easily detected with the Calibration Dashboard by providing stable dataset integrations and allowing for the automatic analysis of hundreds of datasets in a single view. 

Consistency Through Automatic Outlier Detection

Learning from historical data, storing templates, and automatically checking the consistency of different variants for outliers and calibration errors. 

Enhanced Responsibility Management and Collaboration

Special features allow a smooth information and data sharing to individuals or within the team to provide an appropriate workflow.

Flexible Automated Variant Calibration

Integrate CRETA effortlessly into a state-of-the-art CI/CD pipeline, transforming your workflow with greater flexibility and advanced error detection. Our cutting-edge CI-Toolkit empowers DevOps Engineers to build a resilient Software Pipeline with dynamic Variant configuration. Calibration Engineers can maintain their existing processes, while routine tasks for Software Engineers are automated with sophisticated scripting. Maximize the potential of nightly software updates by implementing our innovative Outlier detector for superior security. 

CRETA Offline Features

Subscribe to multiple projects and explore a variety of captivating variants that will spark your curiosity. Enjoy the freedom to access and store extensive datasets from your lead variants directly on your hard drive. Imagine the convenience of working with your subscribed data anytime, anywhere, even offline. Stay ahead of the curve by seamlessly receiving the latest datasets from your variants.

Smart Development for ADAS/AD, Engine and Chassis

The intuitive interface ensures high-performance features, including traceable documentation of results, comparison of changes across various calibration steps, execution of software modifications during calibration, historical data search, project monitoring, and data management during test trips.

Zsolt Daniel Szalai

It’s brilliant how the all-in-one data management platform unlocks new levels of calibration and data consistency across the whole project life cycle. CRETA drives your project to success without compromising on time or scope.

– Zsolt Daniel Szalai, Technical Expert, AVL 

Upgrade your calibration processes and learn more about CRETA´s game-changing lifecycle management system on AVL Experience Cloud, the global think tank for automotive software innovation:  

  • Explore the latest features in how-to-articles and/or live demos,

  • Learn more about our products in comprehensive expert tutorials,

  • Get one-on-one support from international success managers,

  • And much more 

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