ROME – Ford engineers are therefore testing a new predictive smart headlight system that uses real-time location data to direct beams into upcoming curves, allowing drivers to better see the road in depth in order to respond promptly to any hazards. . The American company has adopted Ansys’ AVxcelerate Headlamp solution that allows you to optimize performance in a virtual environment.
After the advent of LEDs and lasers, the new frontier for offering better visibility in the dark passes through the solution that the blue oval house is developing thanks to the simulation solutions by Ansys that allow it to virtually optimize and validate performance. of the headlights. The ANSYS vehicle headlight system features real-time physics-based optical simulation and special features to replicate the physical world with a high degree of predictive accuracy. Thus, through a realistic virtual night driving experience, Ford engineers can rely on the insights gained from simulations to improve product design long before physical prototypes of the headlights are available.
“The predictive accuracy of ANSYS simulations offers a number of significant benefits for our team, from the ability to design for extreme scenarios to less nighttime road tests,” explained Michael Koherr, Ford of Europe’s advanced lighting research engineer. the ability to actually evaluate system performance in a virtual environment, we are able to identify opportunities for improvement of our product well before entering the physical testing phase. Simulation has and will continue to play a fundamental role in our quest to make night driving as safe and easy as day driving ”. (mr)
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