ANN ARBOR – VI-grade announced that Driver-in-Motion, the new motion platform developed by VI-grade and Saginomiya, has been awarded Development Tool of the Year 2014 by the Vehicle Dynamics International magazine. VI-grade?s US office is lead by System Level Simulation in Ann Arbor.
The award has been assigned to DiM out of a short list of five finalists through a voting process undergone by an international and independent judging panel composed by 27 automotive professionals from 19 countries.
?Motion platforms architectures for driving simulators have been undergoing a very creative development phase in the recent years? said Diego Minen, Technical Director, VI-grade. ?Our new conceptual idea, which resulted in the final platform design provided by Saginomiya, provides an ideal solution for low/high motion frequencies separation. DiM is an extremely efficient tool for implementing our new motion cueing strategy, which has been fine-tuned with the help of professional drivers in our and other simulation centers over the past two years. The combination of DiM mechanical architecture and performance as well as VI-CarRealTime and VI-MotionCueing characteristics is certainly unique to obtain the best driver motion perception.?
VI-DriveSim?s computing core is a Linux-based real-time computer, which enables owners to add any ECU or software program communicating with the digital vehicle model as in reality. VI-grade?s flagship solution VI-CarRealTime powers the system with a real-time validated vehicle model – the same one used for off-line simulations. Graphics are based on a high-quality rendering visualization program.
