VI-grade will participate to the "SIMVEC 2014" event dedicated to the motorsports industry to be held on November 18th-19th, 2014 in Baden-Baden, Germany.
VI-grade will participate to the event with a booth shared with technology partner MSC Software, showcasing our solutions for the automotive industry.
For additional information on the event, follow this link.
VI-grade will participate to the "European ADAMS/Car Users Meeting" event dedicated to automotive users of the MSC software technologies to be held on November 13th, 2014 in Frankfurt, Germany.
VI-grade will participate to the event with a presentation titled "VI-grade solutions for the ADAMS/Car automotive community".
For additional information on the event, follow this link.
VI-grade will participate to the "Professional Motorsports World" event dedicated to the motorsports industry to be held on November 13th-15th, 2014 in Koeln, Germany.
VI-grade will participate to the event with a booth (Hall 10.1 - Booth 4146) showcasing our solutions for the motorsports industry.
For additional information on the event, follow this link.
VI-grade will participate to the "7th International Conference - Advanced Chassis Systems" event dedicated to innovative design solutions for automotive to be held on October 23rd-24th 2014 in Turin, Italy.
VI-grade will participate to the event with a presentation titled "Controls Systems Design: a complete process from virtual detailed model to physical testing on driving simulators".
For additional information on the event, follow this link.
The Virtual Formula 2015 is almost over! We are happy to report that 150 teams from all over the world have joined this year's edition.
We would like to inform you that the deadline for submitting your results for the 2015 edition of the Virtual formula has been extended to March 20th, 2015 at 24:00 GMT.
Please find below the instructions to submit your results:
1) All teams participating to the 2015 edition of the Virtual Formula should prepare a password-protected ZIP file named after the team and containing the following files:
A completed submission entry form (using the template available at this link) including all the following results achieved with your vehicle: Laptime in autocross event, Top speed in autocross event, Fuel used in autocross event, Final time in acceleration event, Maximum lateral acceleration in steering pad event (see the plot examples available at this link for a proper results extraction);
Your model database. It is required that you use the publish tool in VI-Motorsport in order for all file paths to be properly neutralized;
All files that have been generated by the VI-Motorsport simulations (result files including the send_svm.xml file);
The .rdf, .drd, .obj files you used to achieve your results;
A completed technical report (using the template available at this link) with the detailed description of your simulations.
2) Please upload the ZIP file on our FTP server accessible with the following credentials:
3) Please send us to virtualformula@vi-grade.com an e-mail with the password used to protect the ZIP file, once your ZIP file is successfully uploaded.
4) This year, extra points will be assigned to teams that will demonstrate their ability to perform additional dynamic maneuvers in VI-Motorsport in order to better understand the vehicle dynamics behaviour (5% of the points scored through the mandatory exercise) and dimension the vehicle suspension according to the calculated loads in Adams/Car (10% of the scored points scored through the mandatory exercise). If you have completed also this part of the exercise, please make sure to include the related information which summarizes your engineering decisions in the technical report prior submitting it to us. The report will then be evaluated by a technical committee formed by vehicle dynamicists from VI-grade and MSC Software.
The winning team will be announced at the end of April 2015 and will be awarded with a complete hardware + software package including multiple user access to the VI-Motorsport and Adams/Car technologies.
Good luck with your participation to the Virtual Formula!
VI-grade will participate to the "Optimize This! 2014 - International HEEDS Users Conference" event dedicated to optimization solutions to be held on October 14th-15th 2014 in Dearborn, Michigan (US).
VI-grade will participate to the event with a presentation related to the usage of the HEEDS optimization solutions in conjunction with VI-grade software.
For additional information on the event, follow this link.
VI-grade will participate to the "Moderne Schienenfahrzeuge" event dedicated to simulation of railway vehicles to be held on September 7th-10th 2014 in Graz, Austria.
VI-grade will participate to the event with a joint presentation with Walter Kik (ArgeCare) and H. Scheffel (Railway Dynamic Systems) related to the usage of VI-Rail for the calculation of wheel/rail wear and stress in vehicles with rigid and self-steering bogies.
For additional information on the event, follow this link.
VI-grade will participate to the "Driving Simulation Conference 2014" event dedicated to driving simulation to be held on September 4th-5th 2014 in Paris, France.
VI-grade will participate to the event with a presentation related to driving simulation held by University of Padua.
For additional information on the event, follow this link.
VI-grade will participate to the "Vehicle Dynamics Conference 2014" event dedicated to vehicle dynamics simulation to be held on June 22nd-24th 2014 in Stuttgart, Germany.
VI-grade will participate to the event with a presentation related to driving simulation and with a booth.
For additional information on the event, follow this link.
VI-grade will participate to the "chassis.tech plus 2014 - 5th International Munich Chassis Symposium" event dedicated to vehicle dynamics simulation to be held on June 22nd-24th 2014 in Munich, Germany.
VI-grade will participate to the event with a presentation related to driving simulation.
For additional information on the event, follow this link.
VI-grade will participate to the "NI Automotive Forum 2014" dedicated to smart car validation and testing to be held on 29 May 2014 in Turin, Italy.
VI-grade will participate to the event with a booth.
For additional information on the event (official language of the conference is Italian) and to confirm your partecipation (registration is free-of-charge), follow this link.
Diego Minen, featured in the "Analisi e Calcolo" article (full story available at this link), will be coming to speak about the evolution of driving simulators from the early days of motorsports, where it has become a standard, to vehicle product development for passenger cars. We will cover our 2nd generation “Driver-in-Motion” driving simulator which enables a new generation of applications to challenges not possible before for a driving simulator.
Join us on Monday, May 12th, 10-1pm in MSC.Software’s Offices at 50 West Big Beaver, Suite 430, Troy, Michigan to learn how simulators have changed the face of motorsport, and is poised to do the same in vehicle product development.
Register NOW free-of-charge at the link on the right of this page!
Our 2014 International Users Conference took place April 10th-11th, 2014 at the “Albergo dell’Agenzia” located in the enchanting city of Pollenzo-Bra, Italy, very close to Turin.
The event has been a unique opportunity for 156 simulation engineers from all over the world and belonging to various industries, such as aerospace, automotive, motorsports and rail to meet and share their experiences related to simulation, hardware-in-the-loop and controls.
The event has been organized with the collaboration of 2 golden sponsors (MSC Software and Saginomiya) and 12 silver sponsors (3D Mapping, Barco, Concurrent, Esteco, FEV, Fraunhofer Institute, Maplesoft, Mira, Multimatic, National Instruments, Red Cedar, Sim.Co.VR) and included a comprehensive list of 35 confirmed papersfrom renowned international companies such as Ferrari, BMW, Magna Steyr, Triple Eight, Bombardier Transportation, Porsche, Fiat Research Centre, Multimatic, All-in-sports, Tatravagonka, Škoda Transportation and several others.
The conference also featured a session dedicated to driving simulation, with papers on VI-DriveSim, DiM and other related topics, as well as a separate track on day 2 fully dedicated to the railway industry, featuring 6 technical papers and a free-of-charge update session on the forthcoming v16 release of VI-Rail. All this in the enchanting scenario of the city of Pollenzo-Bra, cradle of the Slow Food consortium.
Proceedings, photos and videos of the event are available at the links on the right of this page.
Please join VI-grade at MSC Software's System Dynamics team in order to explore the newest capabilities in Adams and share best practices with industry colleagues from leading automotive and ground vehicle firms. The event, held during the week of the SAE World Congress, will feature several customer presentations and an “ask the developers” panel discussion. Your participation will provide you with a valuable opportunity to learn from other organizations, network with other system dynamics engineers, and influence Adams development plans.
The meeting theme is “Coupling Technologies to Drive Next-gen Solutions”. The CAE landscape is evolving rapidly, as corporate silos are broken down, engineering processes are revamped, and computer hardware delivers faster computation. The System Dynamics business unit at MSC Software is working closely with customers and partners to bridge the gaps that exist in today’s simulation technologies and engineering processes, enabling a move from point solutions to process-driven, value-added workflows. With our market-leading Adams product, we are focused on ensuring that we take steps to satisfy next-gen requirements, and are developing new technologies and leveraging complementary ones to build the software that our customers want today and will need tomorrow. Process. Vision. Focus.
VI-grade will participate to the event with a presentation.
For additional information on the event, follow this link.
VI-grade will participate to the "Simposio SAE Brasil de Dinamica Veicolar" event dedicated to vehicle dynamics (automotive and rolling stock) simulation to be held on 19 March 2014 in Sorocaba (SP), Brasil.
VI-grade will participate to the event together with its Brasilian reseller Multicorpos with a series of presentations.
For additional information on the event, follow this link.
We are pleaed to invite you to join our VI-Motorsport webinar that will take place on Thursday, March 6th, 2014 at 9.30am GMT. The free-of-charge event will be an important opportunity for motorsport engineers from the UK to learn more about our solutions dedicated to the motorsport industry.
The agenda of the event is as follows:
09:30 - Start of the Webinar and brief introduction of VI-grade 09:40 - 10:00 VI-Motorsport presentation 10:00 - 10:30 VI-Motorsport Live demo 10:30 - Q&A session
VI-Motorsport is a faster-than-real-time software environment for vehicle modelling and dynamic analysis, which helps race cars designers and track engineers to predict vehicle performance when set-up parameters are modified, before the car is built and also in support of race events.
Discover the latest advancements featuring in our solutions and find out how VI-Motorsport helps racing teams to reduce the time needed to find the best set-up for a given car on a given circuit and to explore more design variants in less time and with lower costs!
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