Testing plays a critical role in the development of new vehicles, but it’s also a time-intensive and challenging process. To enhance testing efficiency while maintaining high-quality results, Millbrook is continually exploring innovative strategies. In collaboration with HBK, Millbrook leverages GlyphWorks to automate complex calculations, such as the use of GPS Processing to derive vehicle data from low sample rate GPS signals.
Testing is an extremely important yet time-consuming and demanding task in the development of new vehicles. Test centers like Millbrook are continuously investigating new strategies and approaches that improve the quality of results delivered to the customer while reducing program costs and timescales. “We are constantly developing new approaches and creating a forward thinking ethos in testing,” said Chris Polmear, Millbrook’s Senior Engineer, Vehicle Measurement Group. As part of their research, Millbrook engineers attended a free seminar on Large-scale Customer Vehicle Usage Monitoring hosted by HBK. The seminar included a number of presentations on how vehicle testing could be improved, such as “Vehicle Usage Profiling and Proving Ground Optimisation” and “Bringing the Proving Ground into the Laboratory and on to the Desktop” by Dr. Andrew Halfpenny, Chief Technologist of nCode products. Demonstrations shown at this seminar ultimately led Millbrook to select nCode GlyphWorks to support the development of new testing approaches for determining brake usage and braking energy.
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Millbrook in Bedfordshire, UK, is an independent, world leading engineering test and development facility that provides confidential, proven test results for applications in a variety of sectors, from automotive and public transport, right through to testing front line military vehicles to the highest standards.
Facilities for vehicle testing at Millbrook include unique test tracks, such as a demanding circuit that features a 3.2km (2 mile) banked high-speed circuit, which is used regularly for tests over 240 kph (150 mph). There is also a purpose built hill route with a range of extended gradients of 7, 11, 14, 17, 21 and 26 percent. Millbrook has a comprehensive array of surfaces, including an area comprising sinusoidal and random waveforms with coarse blacktop, “cats eyes” and other eye-watering, suspension-jarring features.
This will bring together HBM, Brüel & Kjær, nCode, ReliaSoft, and Discom brands, helping you innovate faster for a cleaner, healthier, and more productive world.
This will bring together HBM, Brüel & Kjær, nCode, ReliaSoft, and Discom brands, helping you innovate faster for a cleaner, healthier, and more productive world.
This will bring together HBM, Brüel & Kjær, nCode, ReliaSoft, and Discom brands, helping you innovate faster for a cleaner, healthier, and more productive world.
This will bring together HBM, Brüel & Kjær, nCode, ReliaSoft, and Discom brands, helping you innovate faster for a cleaner, healthier, and more productive world.
This will bring together HBM, Brüel & Kjær, nCode, ReliaSoft, and Discom brands, helping you innovate faster for a cleaner, healthier, and more productive world.
This will bring together HBM, Brüel & Kjær, nCode, ReliaSoft, MicroStrain and Discom brands, helping you innovate faster for a cleaner, healthier, and more productive world.
