TESTING & DEVELOPMENT

TEST & MEASUREMENT PRODUCTS - DRIVE

DRIVE is a portable vehicle dynamics and road handling system, engineered for high-speed in-vehicle data acquisition. It is a flexible, LabVIEW®-based means of acquiring analog data from a moving vehicle in test track and over-the-road test conditions. Its modular architecture and multi-option software makes this system an unbeatable open-ended solution for a variety of applications.

Form Factor
DRIVE consists of several components. The primary configuration includes a PC, the Base Unit, and software. Accessories can include everything from sensors and external displays to additional cables. Roush offers its customers the choice of either purchasing the primary system or turn-key system delivery and support.

Features
More than 100 years of testing experience went into the DRIVE™ design, yielding dozens of features which maximize usability and efficiency for day-in and day-out testing:
- Curved edges and corners to protect seats
- Rugged mil-spec connectors
- All signal conditioning and power requirements are provided in single unit - eliminates multiple box clutter and confusion.
- Multiple power-in and power-out connections provide power for all your needs and allow charging vehicle battery directly through the unit (eliminates need to access battery during long term testing.
- Rugged tie-down loops allow easy, safe, fast securing of unit to protect driver and unit from mishaps
- Configurable Driver's Aid provides key data to driver from dashboard, allowing driver to keep eyes on road while assuring testing parameters are met.
- Driver's Aid also doubles as portable voltmeter and sensor output display to allow easy setup, calibration and zeroing of sensors.
- All connectors located in back and left side of unit (passenger door and dash side) eliminating interference on driver's side and with seat-back - clean, simple hook-up and tear-down.
- Widely spaced connectors to allow easy connection access even with gloves in cold-weather testing

Software
- Initial DAQ rate of 500 sample/sec/channel
- Re-sampling at 100, 50, 25, 10 or 5 sample/sec
- Custom file management hierarchy allows users to set up vehicle, configuration and test directories to allow structured organization of test data.
- Setup screen enables users to configure DAQ by such functions as entering channel numbers, names and descriptions and selecting transducer types.
- Configurable transducer libraries allow users to configure a variety of transducers by entering name, model, serial number, unit, default display ranges and conversion factors.
- Triggers from hardware or software start acquiring data, which is saved in sequential files that increment automatically.
- Real time displays of 4 channels at a time during data acquisition
- Users can step through all the channels, 4 at a time.
- Cursor provides time and value for each plot.
- Zoom-in is provided using cursors.
- Users can also recall previous data Acquisition, analysis, display and spreadsheet-compatible filing in LabVIEW™- readable binary format or ASCII format files.