Road Load Data Acquisition
Road Load Data Acquisition
A TOTALLY UNIFIED SYSTEM APPROACH: TAKE DATA WITHIN MINUTES NOT HOURS
RS Technologies has combined its 25 years of ex- The complete system has many outstanding and
perience in designing and developing wheel force unique features:
sensors with the latest in modern, modular electronic
• Ease of use of the overall system
data acquisition systems from Caesar DataSystems.
The result is the most modern and complete data • Full integration of sensor with the data acquisition
acquisition system for road load data collection and for high-speed setup, recording, analyzing and
handling tests available. This powerful measuring report generation of the test
system features extremely easy and simple installa-
• Well-designed, linear, durable, and waterproof 6-
tion and continuous checkout during operation, which
component wheel sensors and electronics
significantly reduces setup, alignment, and adjust-
ment time, and gives instant real-time results during • Extremely short mounting and setup time: less
testing. than 10 minutes per wheel!
Road load data is one of the best sources of funda- • Wireless telemetry data and power transfer, fric-
mental information necessary for analysis of the de- tion free with absolute data security and no ser-
sign, reliability, and structural integrity of vehicle vicing required
components. All elements of the measuring system
• Compact electronics package with capability to
must have high accuracy and resolution to ensure
expand to any number and type of signal condi-
reproduction of the test conditions. This demand re-
tioning channels
quires that you combine a durable, highly accurate
wheel sensor with an electronics package that can • Rolling zero and shunt cal: alignment, zero, and
record and process the data quickly and accurately. gain adjustments while driving
The RS Tech-CAESAR approach fully integrates the • 16-bit resolution w/20 kHz sampling and calcula-
design of the Wheel Force Transducer (WFT) with tion speed for all channels
the hardware and software that supports Computer
• Precise, uncompensated vector force resolution
Aided Data Acquisition (CADA). This includes the on-
for all rotating axes
board signal conditioning, shunt calibration, angular
position resolution, and signal transmission to the • Online calculation of resolved signals with out-
data acquisition equipment. The result is a unified puts of resolved and unresolved signals in both
system that features rapid, accurate calibration and analog and digital form
alignment of the wheel sensor with the vehicle data
• Capability of creating files directly for fatigue
acquisition system.
analysis and test rig simulation
WFT in Demonstration Rig Wheel Sensor with TIU (in veh icle)
WFT w/Telemetry
As a system, the WFT incorporates many out- FX MX
Longitudial Turnover
standing features. It offers linearity over the complete Force Moment
MOPS SYSTEM
The MOPS-notebook combination is able to transfer
an aggregate data rate of 128 k Samples per second.
Each channel of the wheel (total 16 per wheel force
transducer) is sampled and calculated with 20 kHz!
This provides a high degree of accuracy for the re-
solved signals, such that at a speed of 360 km/h with
a 14-inch wheel this results in one calculation of each
signal per one degree of revolution.
This basic MOPS signal conditioning system configu-
ration can be easily extended to a full data acquisition
PC and post processing system. The combination of
the RS -WFT with the signal processing of MOPS and
the software packages µ-Lab and µ-Graph produces
a compact, efficient, and reliable measurement sys-
tem that delivers accurate measurement values im-
MOPS-
MOPS- WFT Rack-
Rack- mount Unit mediately after the test.
The MOPS system is the latest in modern, modular
electronic data acquisition systems. It is expandable µ-Lab Software
with signal conditioning for all types of strain gage µ-Lab provides real time display and data recording.
transducers, pressure sensors, accelerometers, It is very flexible and powerful and can be pro-
LVDT’s, RPM or virtually any type and number of grammed to do a very wide variety of calculations
transducers, analog, serial or digital signals, or data and analysis tasks. For example, online processing
busses such as CAN. An angle position encoder in- with µ-Lab allows the test driver to check that all sys-
put provides for accurate waveform resolution. The tems are functioning correctly while measuring is in
electronics are extremely stabile and can be re- progress.
zeroed and calibration gains checked automatically at
any time in a matter of a few sec onds. The MOPS µ-Graph Software
unit can be used as a signal conditioning and calcula- Caesar’s high-speed analysis software, µ-Graph, al-
tion unit with TIU and analog output modules, supply- lows test data representation and offline analysis of
ing all signals to an existing data acquisition system the data recorded on disk. Even data files with many
or directly digitally interfaced with on-board PC. The channels and Gigabytes of data can be seen and
signal output can be as analog signals proportional to analyzed within a few seconds. Format converters for
the applied forces and torques and/or in digital form RPCIII, Matlab or other simulation or analysis soft-
transferred directly to a rugged PC notebook together ware packages are also available from CAESAR.
with online display, data recording and load classifi-
The calculation from unresolved into resolved signals
cation.
is required because the rotating wheels have a rotat-
For example, the MOPS unit and a rugged Panasonic ing coordinate system, whereas global non-rotating
notebook PC are typically stored in the front of the street coordinates relative to the vehicle body are
car. The MOPS is set up with the calibration and required. So, under normal conditions the following
shunt calibration values for the six components of signals are acquired:
each wheel. The MOPS has two links to the not e-
1. fx, unresolved
book: an RS232 cable is used to set up the MOPS
and to carry out individual tests of all individual chan- 2. fy, unresolved
nels defined in the MOPS; a second cable is for data
3. fz, unresolved
transfer from the MOPS signal conditioning and A/D
converters to the notebook. 4. mx, unresolved
5. my, unresolved
Max/Min Evaluation
Other methods of analysis can be defined and the
online results displayed in a list similar to this exam-
ple, such as max hysteresis loops of a rain flow
analysis, or max frequency and amplitude of a vibra-
tion spectrum or distance, duration, deceleration and
brake pressure from a brake test.
By clicking on one of the fields in the display, the data
of this channel in the corresponding road segment
will be displayed as a time history display. The analy-
sis program µ-Graph is started and the corresponding
data is displayed. µ-Graph is the fastest and most
user-friendly analysis and report generating software
package for road load data. The list of road segments
is shown and dragging and dropping either other sig-
nals or other road segments into the graphics can
arrange the display of the data. µ-Graph also offers
format converters for a wide range of other software
used for road load handling, fatigue analysis, such as
nCode FATIMAS, or rig control, such as MTS RPC
III, IST Rigsys, or Servotest SBF format. A MATLAB
converter is also available.
µ-Graph can be set in automatic mode to let you
compose complex sequences of analysis, and
graphic output routines that can run fully automated
and provide a series of report plots without the time
consuming interactive data handling of the operator.
The plots can be laid out as presentation plots with
graphics, bitmaps, text, tables and logos like the ex- Data Report
ample shown below. New test data will just be acti-
vated and all analysis and displays are updated with
the new data. The plot shows the three forces as time
history plot and rain flow matrix plot and power spec-
trum of the vertical force in vehicle coordinates.
CALIBRA
ALIBRATION
Calibration information can be stored on a microchip
circuit so that it can be uploaded automatically from
each WFT to the CAESAR MOPS data acquisition
system.
ACCESSORY LIST
A complete set of accessories for mounting and setting up the system is available.
WFT CAPACITIES
The capacities of the various WFTs are as follows.
FX 30 KN 45 KN 40 KN 40 KN 60 KN 140 KN 140 KN
(6.7 KLBF) (10.1 KLBF) (9 KLBF ) (9 KLBF ) (13.5 KLBF ) (31.5 KLBF ) (31.5 KLBF )
FZ 30 KN 45 KN 40 KN 40 KN 60 KN 140 KN 140 KN
(6.7 KLBF) (10.1 KLBF) (9 KLBF ) (9 KLBF ) (13.5 KLBF ) (31.5 KLBF ) (31.5 KLBF )
FY 10 KN 22.5 KN 20 KN 20 KN 30 KN 70 KN 70 KN
(2.25 KLBF ) (5.05 KLBF) (4.5 KLBF ) (4.5 KLBF ) (6.7 KLBF ) (15.7 KLBF ) (15.7 KLBF )
MX 4 KNM 6 KNM 5 KNM 5 KNM 7.5 KNM 30 KNM 30 KNM
(36 KLB-IN ) (53 KLB-IN ) (45 KLB-IN ) (45 KLB-IN ) (66 KLB-IN ) (265 KLB-IN ) (265 KLB-IN )
MZ 4 KNM 6 KNM 5 KNM 5 KNM 7.5 KNM 30 KNM 30 KNM
(36 KLB-IN ) (53 KLB-IN ) (45 KLB-IN ) (45 KLB-IN ) (66 KLB-IN ) (265 KLB-IN ) (265 KLB-IN )
MY 5.6 KNM 8.4 KNM 6.5 KNM 6.5 KNM 10 KNM 30 KNM 30 KNM
(50 KLB-IN ) (74.3 KLB-IN ) (60 KLB-IN ) (60 KLB-IN ) (88 KLB-IN ) (265 KLB-IN ) (265 KLB-IN )
DIMENSIONS 279 X 126 X 61 279 X 126 X 61 317 X 203 X 84 357 X 241 X 84 381 X 241 X 96 509 X 218 X 559 X 279 X
MM (11 X 4.9 X MM (11 X 4.9 X MM (12.5 X 8 X MM (14 X 9.5 X MM (15 X 9.5 X 95.3 MM (20 95.3 MM (22 X
2.4 IN .) 2.4 IN .) 3.3 IN .) 3.3 IN .) 3.8 IN .) X 8.58 X 3.75 11 X 3.75 IN .)
IN .)
WEIGHT 4.0 KG. 6.5 KG. 5.36 KG. 7.5 KG. 9.0 KG. 27.2 KG. 34 KG. (75
(8.8 LBS.) (14.3 LBS.) (11.7 LBS.) (16.5 LBS.) (19.8 LBS.) (60 LBS.) LBS.)
MIN . RIM SIZE 330 MM (13 IN .) 330 MM (13 IN .) 356 MM (13 IN .) 381 MM (15 IN .) 406 MM (16 IN .) 495 MM 571 MM (22.5
(19.5 IN .) IN .)
MAX. HUB DIA. 152 MM (6.0 IN .) 152 MM (6.0 IN .) 152 MM (6 IN .) 190 MM (7.5 190 MM (7.5 IN .) FITS 11.25 X FITS 13.19 X
W /ADAPTER DISK W /ADPATER DISK W /HUB IN .) W /HUB AD APTER 10 BOLT 10 BOLT M22
ADAPTER W /HUB M22 PAT- PATTERN
ADAPTER TERN
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Fully Integrated Road Load Data Acquisition
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