AVL COLLABORATES WITH TNO
TO ADVANCE SELF-DRIVING
CARS
Joining together with TNO, the Netherlands Organization
for Applied Scientific Research, AVL is boosting the
validation of the next generation of self-driving vehicles.
Before vehicles can be legally certified as safe to drive on
the road, they must undergo exhaustive road testing. With
the advent of self-driving cars these road tests are expected
to reach many billions of miles – something that is quite
impossible to achieve in the real world.
However, by combining TNO’s methodology for extracting
driving scenarios and statistics with AVL’s vast amount
of real driving data, and by combining their StreetWise
database with our forthcoming open verification and
validation toolchain, we have created a solution to this
challenge.
The new AVL Test Case Generator will greatly optimize
the verification and validation process and reduce the
development effort requiredto meet global certification
for self-driving cars.
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AVL TESTBED SYNCHRO
CLUTCH (TBSC)
In today’s testing, warm-up
phases (including start stop cycles)
are challenging tasks inside
preconditioned testbeds/climatic
chambers. Furthermore, injection
systems get more sensitive to the
increase of the added inertia of the
testbed. This often leads to big difficulties
in comparing (idle) test results
from testbeds with real vehicle
tests from the road.
The new patented AVL solution,
AVL Testbed Synchro Clutch
(TBSC), disconnects the dyno inertia
in a controlled way, adding as
little inertia to the engine as possible.
It enables light-duty and heavyduty
testing on the engine testbed
with the same set-up as in the vehicle
on the road. Heavy-duty testing
even in the area of under-critical
speed ranges is now possible.
The TBSC can be offered
as dyno direct-mount
or
stand-alone versions for
extending your testbed’s
capabilities.