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National Advanced Driving Simulator

Iowa City,  IA 
United States
http://www.nads-sc.uiowa.edu/minisim
  • Booth: 705

The miniSim™ driving simulator is ideally suited to applied R&D, academic, and clinical research. Backed by decades of development at NADS, the miniSim is sophisticated and effectively priced. Built-in automation simplifies investigation of human-automation interaction at a variety of automation levels. It can also be linked with external automation for testing and product development.

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  • miniSim™
    The NADS miniSim™ is high-performance driving simulator software designed for research, development, clinical, and training applications. Backed by decades of development, the miniSim is trusted by leading researchers in Human Factors engineering....

    • Thank you for your interest in the National Advanced Driving Simulator (NADS) and the NADS miniSim™ driving simulators! 

    miniSim Overview   miniSim Examples   miniSim Description     

    NADS Engineering   miniSim Website   Training Videos

    The miniSim™ driving simulator is based on the software our team developed for the NADS-1 research simulator, now available for research and commercial applications through the miniSim program. Backed by decades of development and human-factors research experience, the miniSim is sophisticated and affordable. A common code base and tools are used across all our simulators, so a scenario developed on the miniSim will run on other miniSim systems, or NADS-1/NADS-2 and vice-versa.

    Learn more about NADS here: Annual Reports

    The miniSim hardware configurations include desktop or quarter-cab with a single Windows PC. Displays are typically panels but projection systems with flat and curved screens are available. We also build larger simulators with complex display and cab systems. Built-in automation simplifies investigation of human-automation interaction at a variety of automation levels. The miniSim can also be linked with external automation for testing and product development.

    The miniSim consists of four core tools:

    • Tile Mosaic Tool (TMT) for assembling a road network from a library of over 250 road/landscape segments called ‘tiles’.  You use the TMT to connect them and export a complete database to the ISAT and miniSim.  NADS can also create new tiles or modify existing ones to meet your specific needs.
    • Interactive Scenario Authoring Tool (ISAT) for building scenarios on the assembled network.  The ISAT is GUI-driven and does not require scripting.
    • miniSim runs the scenario on the assembled database and provides both real-time measures and a comprehensive data acquisition file in a secure binary format for post-processing.
    • nDaqTools are NADS-designed interfaces for Matlab used to identify the measures to be calculated, and to organize and control the data reduction process.

    Additional Tools Include:

    • ACC and Lane Following systems are commonly used to emulate level 2 automation and hand-off of control. ACC parameters are adjustable including full-range speed control.
    • LKA and LDW systems are built-in, and parameters are adjustable. The LKA system provides torque cues through the steering loader.
    • NADS AutoDriver is a built-in collection of 12 low-level automation behaviors (lane change, turn, etc) that can be engaged via scenario or external control system.
    • Virtual World API is a programmer interface to extract road and scenario-object information in real-time when provided with the location of the driver’s own-vehicle.
    • External Control is an automated driving capability incorporated into the NADSDyna vehicle dynamics software to take over operation of the steer, gas and brake controls to autonomously follow a route through the world. The behavior characteristics are controlled through a set of parameter files and a command vocabulary that may be given through the following mechanisms:
      • Scenario action (i.e. triggered by scenario event)
      • Manual action (i.e. driver button press)
      • External input, typically via UDP
    • Web Socket and UDP interfaces allow integration with external systems and displays, such as Haptic Seats, touchscreens, etc.
    • Analog and Digital I/O is used to integrate driver controls and also trigger or synchronize external devices such as alerts or physiological data collection systems (Biopac, EEG, etc).
    • NADS Infotainment systems emulate OEM-style infotainment interfaces while providing data acquisition and operator control.
    • NADS VidCap video recording system captures 4 channels of HD digital video synchronized with the simulation
    • User-Defined Subsystems are user-written programs that run within the miniSim real-time environment and have read/write access to the shared memory space.

    We provide the following services:

    • Prompt, in-depth user support
    • Custom scenario development
    • Custom virtual environments and models
    • Turn-key experiments
    • Simulator Upgrades
    • Custom simulator design and development
    • Refresher Training

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