As demand grows for autonomous machines, only engineering simulation offers the means to launch them into the marketplace quickly and cost-effectively - without sacrificing safety or reliability.

Autonomous machines - including vehicles, drones and robots - are capturing headlines and the public's imagination, resulting in dramatic growth in market demand. However, developing these autonomous systems is an engineering challenge without precedence. Whole new engineering fields - such as artificial intelligence - are emerging to address this challenge, but time-tomarket is short and the competition is intense. With human lives at stake, rigorous testing of these systems is absolutely critical, but the sheer number of potential operating scenarios makes comprehensive physical testing practically impossible. Only ANSYS engineering simulation provides comprehensive solutions to manage this high degree of product complexity, replicate thousands of operating scenarios, meet aggressive time and cost targets, and ensure product safety. Via simulation, thousands of operating scenarios and design parameters can be virtually tested with precision, speed and cost economy. As simulation plays a greater role in the development of autonomous vehicles, drones and robots, we can expect to see these products fast-tracked to keep pace with increasing market demand.

Autonomous vehicles are threatening to disrupt the automotive, aerospace and industrial equipment industries with the emergence of self-driving cars, drones and mobile autonomous robots. They promise to drastically reduce accidents, minimize congestion, bring mobility to the immobile and perform mundane or hazardous tasks in a fraction of the time required by human-controlled vehicles. This opportunity is open to traditional industry players as well as new entrants, particularly from the high-tech sector. The race to market is on.

The critical path engineering challenge to be overcome is demonstrating compliance with safety requirements. Research has shown that for a self-driving car, this could take between 8 billion and 11 billion miles of road testing. Because physical testing is clearly not a practical solution, autonomous vehicle makers are turning to “simulated miles driven, fl own or maneuvered” as an alternative means of performing the required testing in a reasonable timeframe. This white paper discusses how ANSYS is building the industry’s only comprehensive, open and confi gurable solution to validate vehicle performance against safety requirements, leveraging best-in-class high-fi delity sensor models and open- and closed-loop simulations to validate the embedded software responsible for perception, localization, motion planning and motion execution.

Many sources of on-chip variation are conspiring to kill your project. Learn how the ANSYS FX platform, with its unique variation-aware technology, can save you from gross inaccuracies in modeling variation. Important topics include SPICE-accurate process variation, especially at low voltage; SPICE-accurate voltage variation including clock jitter due to IR drop; and a methodology shift in modeling chip-level aging that is easier, faster and more accurate than current approaches.

Speaker Bio:
Brett Yokom is an experienced EDA professional with 11+ years of experience.  He joined ANSYS in September of 2013 and is currently Lead Technical Project Manager for FX technologies.
Brett started his career at IBM, working on both front-end and back-end design for custom clocks and timing closure. As a part of ANSYS, Brett has been guiding customers with timing variation adoptions of FX technologies including Liberty Variance Format (LVF), Constraint Uncertainty, and PathFX.

When designing electrical machines, engineers need to do thermal modeling of varying complexity: from quick temperature distributions to detailed cooling. ANSYS 3D simulation tools can deliver robust results at any level of complexity. In the early stage of the design process, detailed CAD may not be available. In this case, ANSYS provides machine design tools that can be used to create an initial 3D geometry to evaluate initial design temperature results. This will help you to optimize your design early, before most costs are locked in. Alternatively, you can import detailed finalized mechanical CAD directly into the 3D tools in a complementary workflow. In either case, conjugate heat transfer (CHT) analysis can be performed on the 3D geometry using an all conformal poly mesh, with losses mapped from either 2D or 3D electromagnetics analysis. Temperature feedback from CHT to electromagnetics is also possible for improved accuracy.

Join us for this webinar to see two approaches, one for each workflow, which demonstrate the flexibility of using ANSYS Fluent and ANSYS Maxwell simulations to optimize the cooling of electric machines.

Specification sheet for running ANSYS Fluent and ANSYS CFX simulations on the flexible, scale-out architecture of the HPE Apollo 2000 Gen10 Starter Cluster.

ANSYS Discovery Live allows every engineer to explore more designs early in the process, before getting an analyst involved. Watch this video to see how easy it is to set up and modify a design geometry in Discovery Live — and view the results of your changes instantly. Using an automotive HVAC system as an example, you’ll see how quickly you can change the curvature of the duct, or add internal fins, to try to improve the airflow. Instant feedback tells you if you are moving in the right direction. Instead of spending days iterating on design changes with the help of an analyst, you can explore many variations in minutes, and only get the analyst involved when you are convinced you are close to an optimal solution. Watch this video now to learn how it is done.

Modern bio-medicine practitioners are showing increasing interest in dielectrophoresis (DEP) because of the recent progress in the development of micro-electrodes. DEP gives you control of the trajectories of bio-particles (tumor cells, white blood cells, bio-markers, etc.), resulting in efficient separation and/or selective trapping with low particle damage.

View this on-demand webinar and learn how using ANSYS simulation as a virtual prototyping tool can shorten the path to commercialization of this technology and make it more robust and repeatable. We will demonstrate how to explore and optimize electrode design and operating conditions to adapt them to the specific properties of bio-particles.

PLD Space, an aerospace startup in Spain is leveraging tools acquired through the ANSYS Startup Program to develop small satellite launchers. ANSYS simulation software is helping them hit development timelines, reduce costs and ensure that ideas will work. PLD Space started with ANSYS as a young company, leveraging the software to help them grow and plans to continue to have a strong collaboration with ANSYS into the future. Learn more about the ANSYS Startup Program at www.ansys.com/startups

Although common in embedded software, multirate applications present challenges that must be addressed, including transferring data between functions that run at different rates and scheduling the execution of those functions. These tasks have generally been performed manually, but innovations from ANSYS have now automated the process.

View this on-demand webinar and learn how new features in ANSYS SCADE in our latest software release, ANSYS 19, provide you with an automatic and seamless flow to capture and verify your multirate application architecture. With a dedicated integration API, you can access this information and generate OS configuration files or specific glue code. The application code generated by SCADE is portable and qualifiable/certified.

This process flow has been instantiated with the help of our partner KRONO-SAFE, who will join us for this webinar. It automates the calculation of an optimal and “correct by construction” schedule derived from the model-based software specification of a critical, multirate real-time application running on a single or multicore platform.

Watch this on-demand webinar to learn how ANSYS simulation solutions can help you overcome design challenges in heat exchanging equipment and thermal management. To deal with these challenges, you must understand the fluid flow, heat transfer, structural integrity and fatigue properties of your product. The benefits of fin stamping, the structural integrity of generic bracing, the thermal properties of cold plates, the design of an EGR cooler and other topics are discussed. A demonstration of ANSYS Discovery Live in action is an added benefit of this webinar.