VBOX Customers

Jaguar Land Rover

Based in the UK, Jaguar Cars Limited is one of the world’s premier manufacturers of luxury sports saloons and sports cars. Land Rover is a world-renowned manufacturer of premium 4x4s.

Jaguar Land Rover have used VBOX ADAS Testing systems for a number of years. They were instrumental in our development of the first set-up; helping to produce a flexible and accurate system to suit their stringent testing requirements.

Using it for their state of the art Collision Mitigation and Adaptive Cruise Control features, Jaguar Land Rover also use the VBOX Vehicle Separation package to test advanced blind spot detection systems.

In addition to the VBOX ADAS equipment, JLR are now using Video VBOX in a number of different departments, for a variety of uses that include vehicle dynamics, electronic and mechanical control systems.

Continental Automotive Systems

Continental Automotive Systems are behind numerous innovations in driving safety, producing products for many global vehicle manufacturers.

For the test and development of their ADAS products they needed a flexible system to help them quickly measure complex data with maximum accuracy.

Rob Cavanagh, Lead ADAS Engineer at Continental

Giti Tire

Giti, a global tire manufacturer, operates from 7 strategically located manufacturing plants in China. Adopting a multi-brand strategy, Giti offers a complete range of quality tires and exports to over 100 countries worldwide with North America and Europe as the key export markets.

Martin Gibson, Test Engineer, Giti Tire ETC

“At Giti we use VBOX equipment due to its ability to adapt to all of our test conditions and requirements. All equipment is very simple and quick to install, which along with the user friendly software allows for reduced set-up and post processing time. In addition to this the support staff have always been available to help us when needed.”

Apollo Tyres, South Africa

Warran May

“We’re very satisfied with the ease of use of VBOX. Overall it’s a superb product and enables accurate and efficient testing.”

Goodyear

Goodyear are one of our major customers. They now have over 25 VBOX units in use around the world in places such as Akron Ohio, Luxembourg, Nardo, Idiada, Sweden and Germany.

Autoliv

Automotiv Safety giant Autoliv is using the Racelogic Vehicle Separation System with 100Hz RTK to conduct collision mitigation tests at their purpose built facility.

The test centre, based in Vårgårda, Sweden, includes a mock town with an intersection, a remote controlled balloon car, and pedestrian simulation.

http://www.autoliv.com

MIRA Proving Ground

MIRA (Motor Industry Research Association) are based in Warwickshire, UK, and are a leading independant provider of engineering development and research services to the worldwide automotive industry.

MIRA use a number of VBOX units to carry out brake testing on their own test track facility for many large automotive manufacturers. They have various types of dry and wet surfaces with varying levels of grip, and find that VBOX is the only technology which works consistently in all conditions.

Previously, MIRA had used fifth wheels, Radar sensors, Microwave sensors and optical sensors, but have now replaced all of these with VBOX systems.

http://www.mira.co.uk/

Test World

Test World run the largest cold winter test facility in Finland, and carry out thousands of tests each year for various manufacturers. Their expertise is in testing tyres and braking systems. Test World have three VBOX units which they use on a daily basis.

The nature of cold weather testing presents a number of unique problems. Optical and microwave sensors struggle to operate in such harsh conditions, and fifth wheels slide on the slippery surface.

GPS sensors are ideally suited for such testing, as the only external fitting required is the aerial which can be mounted on the roof.

http://www.testworld.fi/

Automotive testing technology international

Adam Gavine, editor of the respected 'Automotive Testing Technology International' magazine uses VBOX systems for many of the magazine’s technical vehicle testing features. He recently used a Video VBOX Pro at Circuito Monteblanco in Spain for a feature in the magazine.

Adam said: "VBOX was installed in our test cars in seconds, and was so simple to use. It provided accurate data which was very useful to use in the article, and was also great for personal driver development."

www.automotivetestingtechnologyinternational.com

AutoBild India

Our VBOX II 3-axis datalogger was described as being the ‘ace in the pack’ for a vehicle handling test undertaken by AutoBild Magazine India in July 2009.

In what was probably the most objective and scientific handling test ever carried out by a magazine in India, drivers put 21 new cars through slalom, elk, skidpan, and circuit tests to decide which road cars handled and performed the best, with the Audi A4 3.2 Quattro finally beating the competition. Read the article here.

www.autobild.in

Car and Driver

A four page feature in the November 2002 edition of the largest selling US car magazine, Car and Driver, goes into detail on how they test cars. Car and Driver have a strong reputation for balanced, highly scientific automotive testing in the US.

Car and Driver have used all types of testing equipment over the years, fifth wheels, optical sensors, and microwave sensors, and now they have taken the next logical step and invested in two VBOX II's using GPS and compact flash storage.

Car and Driver magazine spent just over a year carefully evaluating and fine tuning their procedures before purchasing these units. Racelogic in turn helped develop the software to suit their needs, drawing on their many years of testing experience.

This software is available for anybody purchasing a VBOX, and makes testing and evaluating new vehicles an efficient and pleasurable process !

www.caranddriver.com

Austal

Australian ship builder Austal is the largest aluminium shipbuilder in the world. Austal used VBOX SL3-Marine to test a new breed of naval defence craft in the form of the Littoral Combat ship ‘Independence’ last month in the Gulf of Mexico. The striking new trimaran is designed to operate in coastal areas and is geared to supporting mine detection / elimination, anti-submarine warfare, and anti-surface warfare.

http://www.austal.com/

Tobias Clarke from Austal shipbuilder on the VBOX SL3-Marine System

“With its easy installation, wireless real time monitoring, accuracy and portability, the VBOX SL3 is a great unit that offers a number of significant leading features and was very useful to us in the development of our latest Littoral Combat Ship ‘Independence’.”

Kongsberg Seatex

Based in Norway, Marine systems manufacturer Kongsberg Seatex AS is one of the world's leading international marine electronics manufacturers, providing products for safe navigation and operations at sea.

With equipment designed to be used in marine operations where high positional accuracy is critical, Kongsberg needed a way to repeatedly test the real world performance of their equipment. To do this, they have been using LabSat to test the effects of interference on their new positioning reference system, the DPS 4D, which offers worldwide sub-metre accuracy.

http://www.kongsberg.com/

Arne Rinnan, CTO of Kongsberg Seatex AS on LabSat:

"Using LabSat to record and replay real GPS data, and observing temporary interference from telecoms equipment was extremely beneficial to our engineers in assisting with the development of our advanced DGPS products."

Volvo Penta

Marine engine manufacturer Volvo Penta uses the VBOX SL3-marine system to obtain measurements on vessel handling characteristics to optimise their propeller and drive train setups.

Three ground plane antennas were attached to the roof of a boat to obtain simultaneous Pitch, Roll and Yaw data, which is transmitted via Bluetooth to a dashboard mounted Q3 display.

Volvo Penta were attracted to the VBOX SL3-Marine system for its flexibility and accuracy as a precise 3-axis measurement system that can be fitted and working in less than 5 minutes.

QinetiQ

QinetiQ is a science and technology company formed from the major part of DERA, the British Government's elite defence research and development organisation.

QinetiQ use VBOX systems for performance testing of military vehicles, and find it especially useful in very rough terrain where microwave and optical speed sensors cannot operate.

Caterpillar

RACELOGIC have worked with the construction vehicle manufacturer Caterpillar to measure the articulation angle and position of their earth moving equipment using a twin antenna set-up.

Mitsui Group company PTS S. A.

Peru has a very large mining industry, commonly using haulage trucks with payloads of 360 Tonnes. These trucks use “giant tyres” which are very expensive and place great demand on natural resources for their production. Another problem with these tyres is that their service life is often cut short due to the tough conditions in which they are used.

RACELOGIC have worked with Mitsui Group company PTS S.A., in Peru to develop an application which can help reduce the strain placed upon these giant tyres. The system uses a 20Hz VBOX II SX to monitor various tyre and vehicle conditions (temperature, distortion, velocity, etc), to determine the optimum drive lines and speeds around the mine site. This helps to preserve the life of the tyres resulting in very significant savings in both money and materials.

Racelogic’s Speed Profiler solution is also put to use in similar applications.

http://www.mitsui.co.jp/en/