Vehicle Systems

Vehicle Systems provides leading specialists in military vehicle electronic systems integration, systems architecture design and development, safety and certification of drive-by-wire, design and development of data architectures for high definition video and crew display interfaces.

Through MOD research, technology demonstrator programmes and support to military vehicle programmes the group is recognised as a world leading authority in the following specialist areas:

• Network technologies and protocols – develop and demonstrate systems utilising appropriate technologies & protocols (e.g. MilCAN, TTP/C, FlexRay, Mil-Std-1553B, CAN), author of Vetronics Standards and Guidelines document (www.vsi.org.uk/standards). Chair for the industry MilCAN Working Group (www.milcan.org).
• Safety and Certification of drive-by-wire systems on vehicles – certification and safety case development against EN61508 European safety standard. Developed a vehicle demonstrator to exercise the processes for development and certification of safety critical databus systems.
• Development of video distribution systems, with specific focus on distribution of digital image data on military vehicles using Gigabit Ethernet, User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and Real Time Protocol (RTP).
• Power distribution architectures for military vehicles including power storage and generation.
• Battlefield Target Identification System (BTIS) technology and integration advice and design.
• Integration of vehicle systems, displays and sensor information into crew station man-machine interfaces.
• Provision of advice on Health and Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS) end to end implementation, demonstration of vehicle HUMS, condition monitoring and author of Defence Standard 25-24 'Health and Usage Monitoring Capability for Land Platforms (HUMS)'.