Data acquisition solution for off-road vehicle testing

摘要

With a focus on shortening development cycles and improving performance, reliability and safety, developers of off-road vehicles need to run more tests and acquire and analyse ever more data. Bernd Knoll highlights the features to consider when a selecting a measurement system for such applications. A series of common measurement requirements typify all off-road vehicle testing scenarios - from a truck transporting material, a tractor ploughing the dusty expanses of a wheat field, to an off road racing car performing under extreme conditions. These include the need to withstand often harsh field testing environments while still providing accurate and repeatable measurements. There is also a common requirement to acquire data over the Internet.