“Europe will impose ‘zero emissions’ in 2035.” This is the headline of many newspapers and car magazines in this late spring of 2021. We are in 2022 and the European Commission has just validated this statement.From 2035 onwards, car sales in...
To test and validate automotive systems and/or perform human factors researches engineers and researchers have been using for years simulation. Simulation and real-world tests are complementary, the simulation allows to emulate equipment/models (e.g., powertrain,...
Can you introduce yourself? After some rich years leading some projects for French car manufacturers and suppliers, I decided to move from a user to a creator of driving simulators. From 2009, I supervised international projects for OKTAL (former name of the...
About automotive simulation As you already know, simulation in the automotive industry has become essential in the development of new vehicles and products. This is due to the fact that simulation allows the actors of the automotive the industry to design, test...
Can you introduce yourself? Rémi Figueredo, for the last 3 years, I have been a Research and Development engineer at AVSimulation, and my area of expertise is Vehicle Dynamics. As part of the technical direction, I participate in the development of the SCANeR software...
Driver in the Loop The concept of driving simulators emerged in the 1930’s for research on traffic safety. The concept shown here by DeSilva in 1936 is already close to some simulators used these days. At the time, the idea was already to bring the driver into...