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PULSE-based Exterior Passby Noise Acquisition

and Analysis for General Motors
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Regulation Compliance with complete information for Product Development and Improvement

Combining proven acoustic Vehicle Parameters

measurement technology with a Features
Position: A Doppler radar system is
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wireless network architecture for ! Type I Sound Level Meter

used to measure vehicle position,
! 1/nth octave filters according to IEC1260
command, control and data speed and acceleration. Photocells
! One-man operation
management give an absolute position reference.
! Automatic acceptance of “runs”

Vold Solutions, Inc. and Brüel & Kjær RPM: Engine speed is measured by All ISO, SAE, Japanese and Korean
joined forces in the summer of 1998 to evaluating pulse trains from the moving and stationary tests
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build General Motors’ fourth ignition, engine computer or flywheel.

generation Exterior Noise Data
Acquisition System (ENDAS IV) for
their American proving grounds. The
system was approved in Q1, 1999 and
is now in use at both the Michigan and
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! Test types are included in a parameterised
scheme, so that variations are specified by
Miscellaneous: Ranges of parameters, parameters like approach speed, RPM
such as throttle position, engine range and constraints on operating modes
torque, horn voltage, etc., can be and environmental conditions
measured and used as test constraints ! Test editing wizard for extending and

Arizona proving grounds. or performance data. customising the test palette

Acoustic Excellence Network Architecture Data Base in ODBC format

The microphone channels are The vehicle and ground computers are ! Microsoft’s ODBC specification allows
acquired and processed with Brüel & linked by a high-speed wireless unlimited storage and retrieval in a major
Kjær’s PULSE Multi-analyzer System, Ethernet network, running with the data base system, such as SQL Server and
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which includes analyzers for overall Internet (TCP/IP) Protocol. The Oracle, as well as in modest contexts, such
sound pressure levels and 1/nth computer clocks are synchronized, as Microsoft Access
octaves, both A- and C-weighted. and time stamping the data allows
Data Export
Optionally, the system also stores accurate merging of simultaneously
Doppler-corrected throughput data sampled data at stations moving ! ASCII formats, such as SDRC Universal File

and FFT spectra. Format; also Binary Universal File Format

relative to each other. The Internet
! Query access through Microsoft Office
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Protocol also allows any number of

applications
Environmental Data communication, command and control
The environment is monitored so that streams to coexist on the network. For Reporting in Microsoft Office
constraints with respect to wind example, Microsoft NetMeeting is used
! Test reports are produced by running
speed, air and pad temperature, for voice communication between the
Microsoft Word templates against
humidity and dew point are checked vehicle and the ground computers. generated SQL queries
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and documented with every test.

Product Improvement Data
! A-weighted Waterfalls and Order Tracking
in FFT, 1/3, 1/12 and 1/24 Octaves
! Doppler-corrected ground microphone
time histories
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