Daimler’s New FullScale, Highdynamic Driving （戴姆勒的新全尺度的Highdynamic开车）.pdf

Daimler’s New Full-Scale, High-dynamic Driving Simulator – A Technical Overview Eberhard Zeeb Daimler AG Driving Simulators Dept. GR/ACD, 71059 Sindelfingen-Germany eberhard.zeeb@ Abstract – Based on 25 years experience with the optimization and successful operation of driving simulators as efficient tools for the development and assessment of driver assistant and chassis system for passenger cars, trucks and busses, we have built up a new driving simulator center at Daimler´s main research and development location in Sindelfingen. Beside three fixed-based simulators and a ride simulator a completely new designed high dynamic moving- base simulator was constructed. The new driving simulator center was taken into operation in the first half of 2010 and will be officially opened end of September. This paper gives an overview of the hard- and software components as well as of the performance of the new simulators. Introduction Driving simulators are intensively used since several years for the development of driver assistant systems (see e.g. [1,2,3]) and several research institutes and car manufactures have built up new simulator facilities lately (see e.g. [4,5,6]). Since the first publishing of our moving-base driving simulators in 1985 [7], we have permanently improved and modified the motion system, as shown in Fig. 1. The driving simulator first was based on a hydraulic hexapod motion system only, which was enhanced by an additional lateral hydraulic cylinder and a lateral rail system of 5.6 m length in 1994 [8]. In 2004 a further soft- and hardware upgrade was done. The simulator thereby more and more had improved in such a way, that it became an accepted efficient tool for drive dynamic assessments of digital prototypes [9]. But the Berlin simula