Abstract

In this paper, a short introduction of the full vehicle simulation environment OverNight Testing (ONT) is given. This environment was developed in cooperation of Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG with the Research Institute of Automotive Engineering and Vehicle Engines Stuttgart (FKFS) [1]. The main application area is in the concept development for the assessment of overall vehicle concepts. The distinctive features of the simulation environment are a strong configurability and the high degree of automation and modularization.
A process has been defined for the evaluation of a car concept, starting with the integration of new model components continuing with the creation of a new vehicle configuration, over the simulation using various manoeuvres up to the presentation of results. The advantage of the presented simulation tool is the ability to handle a huge number of variaties of a vehicle concept automatically and create evaluation results quickly by using the toolkit principle.