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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. |
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The Vehicle Systems group provided technical analysis for the Ministry of Defence of the performance of combat identification systems during exercise Urgent Quest in September 2005. |
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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)'.
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Supporting information |
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Details of Safety Critical Data Bus System
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Details of Video Systems work
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