Sigma DIL simulators
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Sigma DIL simulators enable core vehicle development work such as expert driver assessments; ADAS and active safety function calibrations; human factors experiments; V2X studies; HMI design evaluations and open connectivity with external DIL, HIL and SIL environments.
Sigma DIL configurations
Sigma DIL static simulators can be stand-alone, or they can be integrated with other Ansible Motion DIL simulators in multi-sim configurations.
Hub
Delta DIL dynamic simulator mock-up cabins are activated for static operation with a plug-and-play docking station. Common scenario: Otherwise idle dynamic simulator cabins can be actively used as static DIL simulators.
Hub Sport
Delta DIL dynamic simulator mock-up cockpits are activated for static operation with a plug-and-play docking station, including Ansible Motion’s full motorsport data communication package. Common scenario: Otherwise idle dynamic simulator cockpits can be actively used as static DIL simulators, with the assurance that all cockpit and driver data is available.
Custom
Mock-up cabin, custom-built by Ansible Motion or End User for special applications. Common scenario: Prototype cabins can be configured as DIL simulators.
Fusion
Real vehicle cabin, modified and fully integrated by Ansible Motion. Common scenario: Real vehicles can be converted into DIL simulators.
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Working with Sigma DIL
“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.”
Kazuharu Kidera
Chief Engineer, Honda R&D Sakura
“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.”
Rajat Aggarwal
Tire Performance Expert, Michelin
"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."
Gorka Alonso
Senior Simulation Engineer, AVL Racetech
“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.”
Aaron Link
Lead Development Engineer, Chevrolet
“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.”
Tim Roebuck
Director, Corum Technology
“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”
Dean Stoneman
2010 Formula Two champion
"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.”
Ron Heiser
Chief Programme Engineer Mach-E, Ford
“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.”
Mark Rushbrook
Director, Ford Performance
“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.”
John Wilkinson
Lead Performance Engineer, General Motors
Sigma DIL simulators are powerful vehicle evaluation tools that are being used today, around the globe, to develop tomorrow’s vehicles today, as follows:
- Test more scenarios, while simultaneously reducing costs and resource consumption
- Eliminate costly late-development-stage design changes
- Reduce prototyping rounds and time-to-market for new products
- Enable human assessments and virtual sign-offs earlier and more often
- Safely explore edge cases, challenging scenarios and push vehicle development boundaries
- Connect seamlessly with existing simulation toolsets (HIL, SIL, etc.) without disruption
Sigma DIL simulator applications
Sigma DIL simulators include full-size cabins, highly immersive visuals and numerous supplemental cabin cueing options. These are the key elements for achieving the safe, realistic, virtual test-driving and human assessment environments required for many areas of automotive virtual product development, such as:
- Tyre developments
- ADAS intervention strategies
- Human Factors, HMI and infotainment system evaluations
- Powertrain and EV assessments
- Steering system validations
- ECU baseline and failsafe logic configurations
- Autonomous handover experimentations
Sigma DIL simulator content
Ansible Motion Sigma DIL simulators always include the following:
- True-to-Life Cabin – which can be a docked, dynamic AML QCSTM cabin, an experimental mock-up, or a modified real car
- A powerful, synchronous real-time computing environment with open and modular software architecture that ensures seamless compatibility with external DIL, HIL and SIL systems.
- Open integration with all major real time vehicle modelling tools, scenario environments and graphics pipelines
- Real-time vision graphics systems (via screen or HMD)
- Realistic in-cabin haptic and audio toolchain
- Future-proofing that ensures software and hardware expandability
- Global supply chain and customer support services
Automotive applications for DIL simulators
Motorsport
Tyre development
ADAS
Human factors, HMI and infotainment
Powertrain and EVs
Steering systems
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