English Gearchange Robot
Designed for remote, automated control of manual and auto transmissions, the gearchange robot enhances the capability of your driving robots, creating new testing possibilities.
Product overview
The Gearchange Robot enables automated control of a vehicle’s gear selector, enhancing options for driverless vehicle control. The robot can be used with automatic and manual gearboxes, selecting drive, reverse or individual gears. It can also be used for tests with a human driver onboard or for laboratory test work. Our RC software automatically coordinates the motion of the clutch, gear change, and throttle actuators to give smooth gear transitions. In vehicles with manual gearboxes, it can either act as a pseudo automatic selector – changing gear according to speed and throttle inputs, or it can follow a defined gear sequence.
With the Gearchange Robot’s ability to change gears in a manual or switch modes in an automatic, driverless robots can do even more of the work for you and complete more realistic test cycles. Some of the applications of gearshift robots include testing the effects of reversing into a pothole or other obstacles (reverse misuse), testing the durability of the gearbox and clutch by repeatedly reversing and turning on an incline (the ‘driveway test’), and testing the advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) of manual vehicles that need to follow a predefined speed profile. By using gearchange robots, you can reduce the human intervention and error in your testing process and achieve more realistic and reliable results.
Specifications
The Gearchange Robot is designed to be easy to use while allowing complex test scenarios to be created and run with unparalleled accuracy.
Gearchange Robot
Max fore-aft force
200 N
Max lateral force
100 N
Max fore-aft stroke
±150 mm *
Max lateral stroke
±100 mm *
Nominal fore-aft force @ speed
90 N @ 1000 mm/s
Gear change time
Typically, ≤0.25 seconds
*Note: Stroke is typically limited by spherical joint angle. Larger linear strokes may be accommodated on vehicles where the angular movement of the gear lever is less
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