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New in MADYMO

With pre- and even non-crash scenarios becoming more important for vehicle occupant safety, the number of relevant loading scenarios increases heavily and the duration of simulated vehicle crash events becomes longer. MADYMO, with its accurate yet CPU-efficient solver and dummy & human models, its built-in sensing & control functionality and its interfaces for co-simulation with other software, is the ideal CAE tool for today’s vehicle and restraint systems design engineer.

MADYMO Solver

The MADYMO Solver is a flexible multi-physics simulation engine that uniquely combines the capabilities of multibody (MB), finite element (FE) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in a single CAE solver. This makes the MADYMO Solver a highly efficient tool for design and analysis of complex dynamic systems.

MADYMO Dummy Models

Years of research and development has led to the creation of the most extensive database of crash test dummy models available. MADYMO Dummy Models are famously accurate and also renowned for their computational speed, robustness and user-friendliness.

MADYMO Human Models

The human body models offer improved biofidelity and can be used in many applications in the areas crash safety, personal protection, sports injuries and seating comfort. The latest development activities are focussed around implementing active muscle modelling.

MADYMO Workspace

MADYMO Workspace is a suite of pre- and post-processing applications for the creation and modification of MADYMO models and for analysis of the simulation results. The applications contain dedicated tools for occupant restraint analysis such as a seatbelt fitting module and automated extraction of NCAP star ratings.

MADYMO Coupling

MADYMO can be interfaced with the FE structural codes LS-DYNA, PAM-CRASH, RADIOSS and ABAQUS. This enables engineers to use MADYMO features that are not available or do not have the required capabilities in their preferred FE code, like the MADYMO quality dummy models and airbag deployment modelling techniques.

What is PreScan?

With the introduction of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) or Intelligent Vehicle (IV) systems, cars are becoming increasingly smarter. Sensors enable them to ‘see’ danger before it happens, so that the appropriate action can be taken. But what should the sensors observe? How should algorithms translate the observations into actions? And what traffic scenarios should be used to evaluate your new intelligent vehicle system? PreScan is a software package that provides the answers.

How does PreScan work?

PreScan is a software tool that can be used for developing Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) that are based on sensor technologies such as radar, laser/lidar, camera and GPS. But PreScan can also be used for designing and evaluating car-to-car (C2C) and car-to-infrastructure (C2I) communication applications. Whatever system you are designing, working with PreScan takes only four simple steps: build a scenario, model sensors, add a control system and run your experiment.

Why use PreScan?

Integrated safety systems need to function properly for an enormous amount of different traffic scenarios that can occur on today’s roads, including effects of weather conditions, road conditions and traffic density. This makes the testing and verification of integrated safety devices a complicated and time-consuming activity. The dedicated Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) functionality of PreScan will contribute to tackle some of the development challenges faced by the industry.

PreScan highlights

PreScan provides a comprehensive set of capabilities for developing and testing ADAS sensor and control systems. This section provides an overview of the available functionalties such as sensor models, ground truth sensor models, scenario generation features, vehicle dynamic options, importers, available interfacing to 3rd party software and hardware.

New in PreScan

In contrast to developing intelligent vehicle systems by means of real-world experiments, working with PreScan is quick, cost-effective and safe. Moreover, test conditions in PreScan can always be quantified and fully controlled. PreScan’s latest releases, PreScan V5.2, have many new features that streamline the ADAS development process even further.

PreScan partners and interfaces

The development of intelligent vehicle systems requires the involvement of many different engineering disciplines including sensing, electronics, control, vehicle dynamics and safety. PreScan is able to interface with industry standards for algorithm design such as Matlab and Java, vehicle dynamic packages such as Tesis/veDYNA and MSC/CarSIM and HIL simulators such as dSPACE and OpalRT.

PreScan movies

This page has some animation recordings from different types of ADAS applications studied with the PreScan toolset.

PreScan in the news

This page gives an overview of publications (magazines, journals and conference proceedings) and white papers in which PreScan is featured.

PreScan in the news

This page gives an overview of publications (magazines, journals and conference proceedings) and white papers in which PreScan is featured.

What is Delft-Tyre?

Delft-Tyre is able to simulate the tyre properties and performance, enabling accurate vehicle simulations. By reporting on a particular tyre model’s effects on a vehicle’s likely behaviour (suspension, steering, brakes etc), the system offers a powerful tool in defining the interaction between road and vehicle. This has significant benefits for designing greater safety, comfort and durability into future tyres and vehicles.

MF-Tyre / MF-Swift

The tyres of a vehicle have an important effect on vehicle dynamics. When simulating vehicle dynamics it is most significant for a simulation engineer to use the best representation of a tyre in his simulation environment. For this application Delft-Tyre offers two semi-empirical models, for use in various simulation environments.

MF-Tool

Raw measurement data can be hard to handle if you do not have the proper knowledge of identifying tyre model parameters. This is why we have developed a module for dataset management, called MF-Tool. MF-Tool is not only able to translate TYDEX files into user defined datasets (parameter identification or "fitting"), it is also possible to visualize and tune/modify/optimize the datasets.

Delft-Tyre Services

As part of the TNO department Integrated Safety, Delft-Tyre is used to apply its knowledge in a broader perspective. The Delft-Tyre software and experience have been the basis for various projects, usually related to vehicle dynamics. With this in mind, please consider the Delft-Tyre team the next time you run into any tyre or vehicle behaviour related problem. Delft-Tyre can also deliver consultancy wherever this is requested. We have been able to consult in various projects in the past.