Industrial Consultancy & Sponsored Research (IC&SR) , IIT Madras
System and Method for Controlling Vehicle Motion in a Simulation Environment
Categories for this Invention
Technology: System & method for controlling vehicle motion in a simulation environment
Industry/Application: Automobiles/ Transportations, Robotics, Automotive;
Market: The global motion simulation market is projected to reach at a CAGR of 5% during the period (2024-32).
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Problem Statement
- The problem statement discussed in the present invention is how to overcome the limitation by using Wi-Fi which is higher bandwidth & many number of protocols available.
- Hence, subject invention addresses the issue efficiently
Technology
- Present patent describes to a system and method for controlling vehicle motion in a simulation environment.
- Vehicle models comprises sensors for sensing parameters associated with the vehicle model. The parameters are shared with a ground station server.
- The ground station server transmits a control command to the vehicle model in response to the parameters for optimizing the simulation of the vehicle model.
- Communication channel establishes a communication between the vehicle model and the ground station server.
- System may be useful in a physical simulation of ship model for hydrodynamic studies in towing tanks, wave basins and wave flumes.
The claimed invention is based on the use of Wi-Fi with high bandwidth & available protocols. It provides an excellent feature of server client configuration where it allows more than one vehicle to be controlled from single shore station.
Key Features / Value Proposition
- Vehicle model comprises a gyroscope, a touch sensor, a temperature sensor.
- proximity sensor, a compass, an acoustic sensor, & a level sensor.
- Improvement in dynamic stability in waves and effectiveness of control surfaces.
- Facilitates the real-time scenarios comprise a collision avoidance of at least two ships.
- Said invention is for fleet of ships or more than one surface vehicle & uses high bandwidth, low latency WiFi protocol.
- Exchange the information between the vehicles using shore station.
- Scaled ship maneuvering experiments are very important to quantify a controllability of ships & also for obtaining free running motion test results, hull to hull interaction, collision avoidance.
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Contact For Licensing
sm-marketing@imail.iitm.ac.in
ipoffice2@iitm.ac.in
Research Lab
Prof. Anantha Subramanian V
Department of Ocean Engineering
Prof. Jagadeesh Kumar V
Department of Electrical Engineering
Intellectual Property
IITM IDF Ref. 1450; Patent No. 509944
PCT Application No. PCT/IN2017/050553
Technology Readiness Level
TRL-4
Proof of Concept ready & validated