AVL PRODUCT DESCRIPTION DATA POST-PROCESSING AVL …

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AVL PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

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DATA POST-PROCESSING

AVL CONCERTO™ HIGH QUALITY DATA MANAGEMENT AND DATA POST PROCESSING

CONCERTO is a graphical data evaluation and visualization software package specifically designed to handle all the different kinds of data that can be acquired on test beds or in the test bed environment and in vehicles. It is the ideal tool for professional data browsing and data management as well as for presentation, calculation, report generation and batch processing of the acquired data. The uniform access to different data sources - located on file servers or in data bases (e.g. ASAM ODS) - and different data formats (like indicating data, crank angle data, log point data or time based recorder data) makes additional data conversion tools unnecessary and also allows easy correlation of different kinds of data. CONCERTO is designed to squeeze all required results out of the mass of acquired data. Due to its wizard support CONCERTO is easy-to-use and intuitive. Creating sophisticated diagram displays or impressive reports is just a matter of a few mouse clicks and makes CONCERTO to the engineers preferred tool for data evaluation within automotive industry.



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Areas of usage CONCERTO is a unique tool for evaluating test bed data, analyzing engine maps, supporting calibration engineers, for file comparison to reference data, series data processing, analyzing dynamic test runs as well as combustion analysis, statistical evaluation, etc. CONCERTO substantially reduces data processing time wherever:

• a large number of files with different contents has to be managed

• data at different locations has to be organised logically

• repeated tests have to be evaluated

• data with different formats, resolutions or file lengths have to be combined

• calculations using standard or customer-specific algorithms have to be performed

• automated (batch) or remote data processing is required

• fast and high quality printouts and reports are required

• etc.



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Characteristics of modern post-processing solutions

The software package CONCERTO focuses on the continuously growing and changing market requirements within the automotive industry. The following characteristics of software solutions for data post processing are combined and ideally achieved in CONCERTO within one compact tool.

• Quick adaptation to changing requirements and safety of investment: due to quickly changing demands from the market, it becomes essential that solutions for new customer requirements are implemented in the evaluation software in short time. The software has to be flexible and open to assure that future demands for additional functions and extensions can be implemented. A continuous development has to provide the necessary integration of new standards and it has to consider new trends in engine development and engine calibration.

• Functionality and ease of use at the same time: the software has to fulfil different requirements from different user groups. On one hand it has to offer the maximum flexibility and power to the expert user, and on the other hand it has to be easy and safe to use for beginners.

• Data access and data management: the ever increasing amount of collected data, require quick and easy data access and flexible interfaces to implement further new data formats. Additionally the post-processing software must support the logical organisation, management and navigation through the measurement data. More than this, nowadays it is necessary to support numerous of different data types and professional data processing software has to be able to harmonize all this different data. To be effective CONCERTO offers multiple conversion functionalities to get all the data in the same style.

• User and application support: for most efficient use it is crucial to have access to a professional, competent and fast support organisation. Problem solving support is the minimum requirement, but ideally the supplier of the evaluation software is capable of giving application support and developing customer specific solutions and applications.

Additionally to these standard characteristics CONCERTO provides you with additional essential benefits for the user.

• One window to engine development data: CONCERTO offers access to different data formats independent from the type of data sources such as automation, indicating, emission, simulation, etc. Therefore all different data can be evaluated and analyzed within one single tool. The CONCERTO-DataExplorer provides a clear overview and the easy access to all supported formats.

• Global standards for data evaluation and comparison: CONCERTO allows today’s globally acting users to exchange data and evaluation routines like layouts, formulas and scripts with a single click of a button. This is the basis for common worldwide engineering; it generates comparable results and helps to improve data security as well as efficiency, and promotes standards within an organization.

• Time and cost saving through automation: the automation of repeatedly used procedures saves time and costs in the evaluation process, helps to reduce errors and ensures consistent, repeatable and comparable results in the data evaluation process. CONCERTO supports automation procedures by using standard scripts as well as customer specific scripts.

• Fast growing range of applications: more than 7000 licenses of CONCERTO are in daily use by engineers of the automotive industry worldwide. The feedback from these users make CONCERTO a fast growing software package with new and optimized functionalities made available with every new release.

• Access to international support network: besides local supporters, an international team of software and application supporters is available to assist the customers to optimize the use CONCERTO in accordance to the specific needs.



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Technical Features

• Intuitive user interface: Drag-and-drop functionality, task oriented toolbars, wizards, dock-able windows, quick access to parameter settings via context-sensitive menus, etc. As a result CONCERTO is easy to use, intuitive and requires minimum training. Property dialogs and data selection and visualization via comprehensive explorer trees for data and graphic objects help to reduce the time for daily data evaluation. Other strong points are easy and intuitive definition of diagrams and partly or fully automated data processing using flexible layouts, macros and scripts.

• Flexible data access: CONCERTO offers interfaces not only to AVL specific data formats but also to customer specific data formats and to generic standardized database formats like ASAM ODS. Nowadays more than 30 data formats are supported and new formats become available with each new release to constantly broaden the application area of the software.

• DataExplorer: comprehensive overview and convenient access to all available files, data sets, formulas and result data, look and feel quite similar to MS Windows™ Explorer but deeper browser functionality down to single data channel level.

• Modularity and flexibility: To deal with the wide range of user levels and requirements, CONCERTO supports user groups, offering the full functionality and flexibility to expert users and configurable functionality and simple user interfaces for the standard users and beginners.

• Additionally the CONCERTO concept allows creating interactive and intuitive evaluation environments adapted for customer specific evaluation tasks, which make the full power of CONCERTO available to any user at the click of a button.



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• Powerful display features: CONCERTO offers a wide range of visualization and presentation methods and objects (graphics, tables, lists, combined reports, etc.).

CONCERTO offers manifold different diagram objects from simple 2D-diagrams (line-, bar-, stacked bar-, band-, x/y-, stair-diagrams, etc.) over 3D-diagrams (3D-engine-maps, waterfall-diagrams, 3D-bars, 3D-curves, etc.) up to specific diagrams (radar-diagrams, Campbell-diagrams, scatter-diagrams, pV-diagrams, indicating curves, full load curves with ISO-lines, etc.). The datasets can be time based as well as cycle based, crank angle based or log-point based.

The usage of user definable layouts, templates and report windows and the possibility to combine test results from many different measurement systems makes CONCERTO a versatile data evaluation tool.

• ActiveX-Controls / Movie-Object: CONCERTO also allows you to insert ActiveX-Controls in its display windows. A Movie-Object can be displayed (e.g. AVI-File from simulation systems) synchronously to diagrams in which measurement data is displayed over time.

• Interactive Data Analysis: a wide set of cursor tools for detailed interactive analysis of data is accessible directly via the user interface in CONCERTO.

• Powerful calculation features: CONCERTO offers several powerful built-in tools for definition of calculation algorithms and data editing. To further extend the calculation power, an interface to Mathworks Matlab™ is available.



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• Calculator: the calculator tool of CONCERTO enables the user to create single-line formulas (with up to 4 input variables) and transformation macro functions quickly and easily. In addition to several arithmetical and mathematical standard functions free definable macros can be included too. The knowledge of a programming language is not required.

• Formula/Script Editor - Formula Compiler: high-level programming tool for sophisticated evaluation algorithms and scripting.

A large library of predefined functions for mathematics, statistics, combustion analysis, data handling, string handling, logical and Boolean operators, etc. is available and makes the creation of new formulas, scripts and macros easy. The Formula/Script Editor also supports a MS Intellisense™ like programming style.



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• CalcGraf - graphical formula editor: the CalcGraf-tool allows calculations to be defined as graphical models. The models include single or multiple input channels that are transformed to single or multiple output channels via operators, function blocks, etc. Therefore it is used for fast creation of formulas for cycle-based as well as time-based datasets. No knowledge of a programming language is required.

The comprehensive graphical visualization of complex calculations is an additional benefit of this tool.

• Automation possibilities: With the possibility of automating evaluation procedures, using macros, scripts and batch files, CONCERTO offers a great potential for time and cost saving. Reports can be created immediately after the test run or already during the test run automatically.

• Open interfaces: To ensure the extendibility and usability in quickly changing environments, CONCERTO offers standard interfaces to communicate with other application programs. CONCERTO supports customer-written file access, Active-X and COM, ASAM ODS (AVL Santorin) and ASAM CEA, import/export of graphs and tables, etc.

• Data correlation: data sets from different measurement types are correlated easily, e.g. test bed data and combustion data

o Evaluation of inhomogeneous data: data sets of different length can be easily evaluated

o Evaluation of manifold test bed data: stationary tests (log point-based), dynamic tests (e.g. full load curves), endurance tests, engine maps, emission measurements (e.g. full FTP cycles), combustion data (crank angle-/time-/cycle-based), etc.

o Support of different data sources: local or network drive, host system, ASAM ODS database, SQL-access, etc.



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• Wizards: easy creation of diagrams, reports, etc. for presentation and documentation with self-explaining step-by-step guides

• API for customer-specific file access methods

Technical information, licensing and packages

• Designed for Microsoft

WindowsXP

and Windows 7

• Recommended PC configuration: Intel Core i5 2.5 GHz (or equivalent AMD ) processor, DVD-Drive, 1 GB RAM (or higher)

• Single (via USB-dongle) or network licenses (via Network License Manager)

• Packages:

- CONCERTO- Key: is the base package and provides a set of basic functions for generic data post-processing (e.g. 2D diagrams, tables, text objects, simple formula functions, access to basic file formats, etc.)

- CONCERTO- Advanced for Indicating: incl. the full functionality of CONCERTO-Key and additional specific functions for combustion analysis tasks (e.g. CalcGraf with function library for combustion analysis, etc.)

- CONCERTO- Advanced for Test Bed: incl. the full functionality of CONCERTO-Key and additional specific functions for test bed data evaluation (e.g. access to ASAM-ODS data bases, 3D engine maps, etc.)

- CONCERTO- Premium: incl. full functionality of CONCERTO-Key, CONCERTO-Advanced for Indicating, CONCERTO-Advanced for Test Bed and additionally a set of expert functionalities (e.g. extended data access, COM- and Active-X-Interface, user interface - adaptability, etc.)

- In addition to this preconfigured license packages further application oriented packages and optional extensions are available (e.g. for analysis of emission test data, evaluation of hybrid test bed data, extended combustion analysis like gas exchange or injection rate, etc.)

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