Durability Testing

Automotive durability testing requires human drivers to endure long hours of tedious operation over test tracks so rough as to be a danger to their health and safety. Safety considerations require that in-vehicle human drivers limit their exposure to rough roads and limit their speeds in adverse weather and at night.

In-vehicle autonomous systems enhance safety and allow for longer hours of testing operations even in low visibility conditions. Multiple vehicles can be overseen by a single human operator, and can operate through breaks and shift changes.

ASI's in-vehicle robotic systems can be used to increase the efficiency of durability testing operations while enhancing safety.

ADAS/Dynamic Testing

Dynamic tests and testing of ADAS systems often require mutliple drivers to perform precise maneuvers, which are difficult for human operators to achieve. Many attempts at the same maneuver are required to obtain one set of useful data, so the process can be very inefficient.

In-vehicle autonomous systems can precisely and repeatably perform coordinated maneuvers, resulting in an increase in useful data in less time, while enhancing safety for human operators.

Dynamic Rollover Testing

With Vehicle Automation Kits from ASI, car makers and test facilities can perform many types of dynamic rollover tests without endangering a human driver.  These types of tests attempt to replicate real-life situations that often lead to roll-overs, such as when drivers drift off the shoulder of the road and then over-correct as they turn back.  Robotic driving kits can recreate these types of situations and perform variations of them in many different conditions without having the build or modify fixed infrastructure.

Fleet Monitoring and Driver Conformance

Not ready for full autonomy? MobiusFleet leverages ASI’s extensive experience with vehicle automation to monitor all critical vehicle functions and test parameters of human drivers.  With MobiusFleet, supervisors at test facilities will be able to easily get reports on all tests performed, comparing the actual results to the test specifications.  In addition to summary reports, event-based alerts can be set up to notify supervisors immediately when certain conditions are met, or the performance of a driver can be monitored in real-time.

Creating test routines can be done in several easy ways.  Test engineers can simply drive a test sequence and have MobiusFleet record everything they do.  The system will then monitor how closely other drivers conform to the pre-recorded routine.  Alternately a test could be created manually by entering parameters into MobiusFleet or by modifying a recorded test.