Driving simulator excellence

“Since 2011 Honda has trusted Ansible Motion’s Delta DIL simulators, enabling our engineers to develop better automotive technologies. Its simulators advance our engineers’ understanding, support our young engineers to learn, and allow us to observe in a controlled environment how drivers, from professional motorsport through to everyday consumers, interact with new technologies.”

“Our customers rely on virtual vehicle models to gain efficiency, improve performance and reduce cost during the vehicle development process. Investing in the Ansible Motion Theta C Driver-in-the-Loop simulator allows Michelin to satisfy the needs of our customers for reliable vehicle models by providing robust and accurate tire models.”

"If you keep pushing the boundaries in simulation, sooner or later you will come across Ansible Motion, because they are one of the leaders when it comes to high-end simulators. We promote the use of Ansible Motion's simulators to our customers, and we also use Ansible's facility in the UK for some of our own projects."

“It takes only half a day to produce the computer model that tests a new configuration of the car. That speed lets us try out things like different aerodynamic arrangements, in a variety of conditions, before we start cutting steel and spending lots of money. We can test four suspension setups, with four drivers, on four tracks, in a single day.”

“The simulator's physics and cueing feedback can be altered on the fly, so assessing changes in my comfort level as I carried out driving and non-driving tasks could happen at a much faster pace than any testing in a real car, adjustments in the simulator are almost infinite it seems. I was able to experience anything from ‘normal’ vehicle driving responses to ‘extreme’ variations, so it was easy to describe any improvements in how I felt, and how those related to the vehicle tuning states.”

“It’s clear that Ansible Motion truly understands simulation. Their experience in vehicle dynamics and motorsport has helped them to create something very different, a breed apart from a normal simulator. The Delta simulator ‘coaxed’ me into behaving as I would if I was out on track. I could study my performance and work that into my actual race prep. It was a really valuable session”

"We’d drive the Mustang as it was set up and then change the bushings, or spring rate, or tyre compounds. The simulator enabled us to quickly understand what that was doing to the ride and handling characteristics of the car. It really helped us to get the bones right before we got into physical prototypes.”

“Our simulators are in use all the time. We thought one was enough. Then we thought two was enough. And now the product guys are in there all the time, too, so maybe we need a third.”

“The simulator allows our development engineers to drive and test the real-time computer simulation and added hardware system on a virtual track, just like they would a physical prototype. The Driver-in-the-Loop technology is so valuable in testing vehicle dynamics because we can easily blend actual vehicle components with a driving simulator.”