International Journal of Computer Applications (0975 – 8887)

Volume 140 – No.2, April 2016

ABS Dynamic Simulation Test Stand using Lab View

Patil Rohini B. Bombale Uttam L., PhD
M. Tech. (Electronics) Associate Professor, M. Tech.
Department of Technology, Shivaji University Department Of Technology, Shivaji University
Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India

ABSTRACT periodic checking occurs. It is unknown, whether these self-

Anti-lock braking system (ABS) is an automobile safety check are sufficient to cover most of the failures which appear
system for vehicles which will allow controlling wheels of in the system, or if additional efficiency tests are necessary.
vehicle and providing safety contact on road surface To check and calibrate these systems in the vehicles
according to driver braking input, avoiding uncontrolled omeoptimized measurements and diagnostic devices are
skidding and also preventing the wheels from locking up. required. ABS performance directly affects the vehicle driving
The main task of ABS is to press and release the brakes safety; smooth ABS performance test also has become the
almost 15 times a second, so process of stopping the vehicle inevitable trend of the automobile industry development. The
in a shorter time and distance. The ABS controller basically main objective of the system is to test ABS instead of real
prevents the braking wheel from skidding on the road surface. vehicle. There are three purposes to design the ABS dynamic
Because of all these features, ABS has greatly improved the simulation test stand:
performance of automobile security. Currently the test stand is
used to take measurements and analysis of ABS. The ABS  Under different circumstances the ABS should work
system performs two main functions, automatic measurement good
and testing of high quality ABS. In this paper, the test stand
 Maximum friction factor should be consider during
can create a virtual environment so that various testing
testing
conditions can be applied for ABS system. The test stand can
record all the parameters and compare with stored values, and  To minimize the cost and test cycle
simultaneously apply for Lab View software. This Software
is used to calculate varies parameters of the test stand and also Conventional power test benches and/or conventional brake
generate graph which shows running status test stand. test benches are inadequate for developing and testing
complex drive systems like ABS because of their testing
Keywords conditions. The traditional test stand has two common Testing
ABS Test stand, Data acquisition, Virtual instrument. conditions:

1. INTRODUCTION  Test for the real vehicle

Modern motor vehicle drive systems are characterized by a  The friction coefficient between road and tire is
multitude of complex control and regulating systems difficult to change.
optimally adapting the drive characteristics to the respective
driving condition. In the vehicles more and more control unit However, the test stand described in this paper has
area active and supervise innumerable functions. Known improvements on these two points. To test the performance of
systems are electronic devices for regulating the brake system ABS, we have created a virtual environment by using ABS
to obtain increased safety. One of the latest improvements is dynamic simulation test stand to imprecise the external
an ANTILOCK BRAKE SYSTEM, which as the name condition. Instead of testing actual vehicle, it only test the
suggests, prevents a vehicle's brakes from locking up and ABS mechanism
skidding during hard stops on wet or icy roads.
2. LITERATURE REVIEW
The ABS controller basically prevents the braking wheel from In this paper [1], in the process of ABS design, development
skidding on the road surface. This is based on the knowledge and validation, traditional test methods like road test did poor
that a skidding or spinning wheel has less traction and side in cost, cycle and flexibility, and it is difficult to test the
stability than a rolling wheel (Demel and Hemming, 1989). control effect in various conditions. Sosome manufacturers
Under ideal road conditions it usually takes a few seconds to use the test stand instead of road test to do itIn paper [2], the
brake a car to stop, but less than one second to lock-up a functional behavior of older ABS systems is examined with a
wheel. four wheel ABS Test Bench from TUEV Rheinland. The
vehicles for the tests are acquired during the periodical
The electronic control unit (ECU) is programmed to
inspection tests at the TUEV Kraftfahrt testing facilities.
decelerate each wheel near its peak slip condition without
locking the wheel. By pulsating the brake pressure, up to 15 In [3], a method for building a HIL of simulation a hydraulic
times per second, the controller admits the wheel to alternate Antilock Braking System (ABS) based on
between free rolling and braking during the pulse cycle. This MATLAB/Simulink is presented in this paper. This paper [4]
controlled pulsing thereby preserves the ability to steer the describes the preliminary research and implementation of an
vehicle in the desired direction while braking in a slippery experimental test bench set up for an electric vehicle antilock
road. braking system (ABS)/traction control system (TCS)
representing the dry, wet and icy road surfaces. A fuzzy logic
The existing information about the availability and reliability
based controller to control the wheel slip for electric vehicle
of these systems is insufficient. Furthermore, it is not defined,
antilock braking system is presented.
how these systems can be effectively checked on their correct
function. At present, the efficiency of these systems is only
tested after the production of the car and no further tests or

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The activity has then been focused on the development of a composed by some functional modules such as data
three-dimensional model of the dynamics of a railway vehicle acquisition, data processing, data storage, and data report.
for more complex applications in [5]. In [6], the first paper This paper [10] provides details about the integration of the
established the mathematical model of motor drive current electrical/electronic component and the control system. A
based on instantaneous rotational speed and other measurable bench-top air-to-water heat pump was designed, developed,
parameters, and then proposed a control model by completely and constructed. This experimental apparatus is currently
using the electric inertia simulation equivalent moment of being used to demonstrate to undergraduate students some
inertia, furthermore carried on the [Link] paper [7], thermodynamics and heat transfer concepts and principles. A
introduces the concept of automotive electronic control PC-based control system which consists of LabView and data
technology, modern automotive electronic control system acquisition (DAQ) unit is employed to monitor and control
applications and the development of feelings of automotive this experimental laboratory apparatus.
electronic control technology. In paper [8], Measurement and
examination of DC motor are important issue for ensuring 3. HARDWARE
quality of portable washing machine. Automatic measuring The schematic diagram of test stand shows the main
and examining can save much time and improve identification components given in Fig. 1. It consists of Lab view driver,
accuracy. It is very helpful for keeping high quality of feedback control circuit, ADC and DAC interfaces, RS 232
products. In this paper, an automatic measurement and interface, dual power supply also some peripheral equipment
examination platform based on powerful LabView is designed load cell, load cell interface, speed measurement circuit,
and implemented. LabView is easy for monitoring and data electromotor and wheel.
acquisition. Motor parameters are recorded and analyzed
simultaneously by applying LabView. Automatic
measurement and examination of DC motor with high
performance is developed in this paper.
In the [9] paper, it is introduced that the design of a power
quality monitoring system based on LabView for factory
power quality, with LabView as development platform,

Fig 1: Block diagram of the test stand

4. DATA ACQUISITION AND Then these two signals are transmitted to the data acquisition
unit simultaneously. The torque is always proportionate to the
PROCESSING exciting current. The torque generated between the motor
The main function of ABS is to compare signals which are driving shaft and the wheel shaft can be controlled by
transmitted by wheel speed sensors and then calculate changing the exciting current. In order to control the exciting
difference between them. The test stand can create virtual current of the motor, the control signal is also transmitted
environment to test performance of ABS. from virtual instruments to data acquisition hardware. The
Simple wheel is used so as to analyze the single round; it is hardware contains not only acquisition unit but control unit.
driven by the electro-motor. The load cell will measure the To communicate between PC and real time data acquisition
torque on the shafts while braking. Speed of the wheel is hardware which is used to monitor system for technological
measured with help of flywheel by using integrated process, the communication module can be realized as
LED/phototransistor module interfaced with LabView driver. application through which we are interconnecting data control

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with virtual instruments. The used sensors convert electric and

non-electric analogical process data into electrical signals.
These electrical signals must be converted from time
continuous variation into a digital representation under binary
form for process the data on PC. By processing data through
PC using virtual instrumentation software provides two
advantages, first is to establish a connection with process
through universal serial bus and second is to release the
communication with monitoring and data acquisition unit.

5. SOFTWARE
5.1 Lab VIEW
LabView™ is centerpiece of graphical interface that is a
software package which provides graphics-based
programming language designed specifically for the creation
of virtual instruments (VI) for both data acquisition and
analysis with the tools you need to create and deploy
measurement and control system. Automatic measurement
and examination platform based on powerful software Lab
VIEW is designed and implemented. Parameters of the test Fig 3: Graph of Torque and Speed
stand are recorded and analyzed simultaneously by applying
LabView.
The block schematic of the software developed using
LabView, When the port number is provided, the execution
enters the while loop. All the structures come inside the while
loop with each of them having separate execution for true and
false conditions. Some of the structures are interlinked
according to the logic of execution. The output from each
structure is manipulated using decimal to number converter.
These manipulated values visualized in the display panel.
Fig.2 shows the display panel consisting of a Com port, speed,
torque, break pressure, speed torque graph. First the display
panel is turned on and the port number is selected. Now the
wheel is start moving. Speed of wheel is display on panel also
on speed graph. When we apply force on brake pedal that
particular break pressure and torque is display on [Link].3
show first graph of instantaneous speed and torque with
respect to time, and fig.4 is of second graph shows speed with Fig 4: Graph of Speed
respect to time on display panel.
In future LabView can be programmed to graphically analyze,
acquire data, control and monitor the ABS performance test.
The instantaneous speed can be visualized using the analog
speedometer and the speed graph. If the speed is exceeded,
proper indication will be provided in the display panel. Also
more sensors may be integrated and the communication can
be made wireless.

6. CONCLUSION
The real time simulator for data acquisition and analysis of
ABS tester using LabView was designed. The use of LabView
helped to reduce many devices and it served as a useful
display panel. The results of the test carried out with this
method have shown that the data acquisition system has a
substantially good performance. The test stand can make ABS
work effectively. It can replace the road test of the real
vehicle, reduce the test cost and shorten test cycle
significantly. In future, more sensors may be integrated and
Fig 2: Display panel the communication can be made wireless.

7. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This work was carried out in Shivaji University, Kolhapur.
The Instrumentation laboratories and software laboratory were
used for testing of various stages of this design work.

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