ANSYS SPEOS predicts the illumination and optical performance of systems to save on prototyping time and costs while improving your product’s efficiency.
To design and optimize your optical system quickly and easily, SPEOS combines lighting performance modeling with extensive, dedicated libraries and optimization capabilities. With SPEOS, you can study the interactions of photons with mechanical geometries to quickly create a functional illumination system for your product.
Combined with HPC, SPEOS delivers results quicker with an unprecedented level of accuracy. High-performance computing (HPC) is a game-changer that will help you meet your deadlines without sacrificing accuracy.
SPEOS has an intuitive, comprehensive user interface that helps you increase productivity by computing GPU-based simulation previews in the ANSYS multiphysics ecosystem.
Designing and optimizing your system
Turn on the light in your virtual model and intuitively explore the propagation of light in 3D.
Access ANSYS SpaceClaim Direct Modeler to speed up the design process. The optical part design feature lets you automatically design optical surfaces, light guides and optical lenses.
With SPEOS Live preview for simulation and rendering capabilities, you can design your products interactively. Cut iteration time and speed up your decision-making process by performing simulations right the first time.
Validating your system
To match your performance specifications, SPEOS combines powerful light analysis capabilities with illumination evaluation across the electromagnetic spectrum, from UV to near-infrared wavelengths. SPEOS provides a high-fidelity visualization based on human vision capabilities. Deploy these visualizations in virtual reality for a fully immersive review experience.
SPEOS lets you test what-if scenarios quickly and easily. You can improve your product’s performance by choosing the right references from the extensive library. Instead of just complying with international norms and standards, SPEOS helps you to exceed them.
SPEOS light box encapsulates an optical system with all its properties and dependencies in an encrypted file, so that you can share your work with collaborators while keeping intellectual property (IP) totally secure.
Take advantage of the ANSYS platform connecting ANSYS SPEOS with flagship solvers to perform designs of experiments (DOE), design optimization and multiphysics analysis like optical-thermal and optical-mechanical.
Ansys SPEOS: Illuminating the Possibilities
Discover how Ansys SPEOS cuts significant time and expense from the design cycle, while supporting the high degree of innovation needed to support advanced applications, such as smart lighting and autonomous vehicle sensors.
SPEOS Capabilities
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Lighting System Modeler
Create your system and automate your design using easy-to-use, intuitive expert tools. Ensure your system’s performance in evaluating illuminance and luminous intensity in the visible light range.
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Lighting System Analyzer
Analyze lighting systems and materials’ efficiency, and calculate spectral luminance, extending your analysis from ultraviolet to near infrared.
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Lighting System Visualizer
Determine visual aspect, reflection, visibility and information legibility according to the human observer. On a screen or in VR, ANSYS SPEOS provides you with a unique model of physiological human eye phenomena: age-related conditions, glare, adaptation, accommodation and color deficiencies.
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Optical Design Optimizer
Optimize optical system lighting performance, determining optimal mechanical and optical design parameters.
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Optical Part Design
Create dedicated optical geometries for the design of lighting systems, with the automated generation of prisms for light guide or pillow optics for reflective and refractive parts. Design the best beam sharp cut-off reflector shape and model manufacturing constraints like drafting and milling.
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HUD Design and Analysis
Design automotive HUD imaging system. Test HUD image quality against standards, specifications and requirements.
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Optical Sensor Test
Simulate and assess camera and lidar raw signals in a driving environment. Apply smart electronic processing intuitively and enable sensor layout on vehicles.
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Far Infrared Extension
Extend optical simulation wavelength range up to far infrared. Model thermal radiation directly from body temperature field.
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Road Library for Sensors Simulation
Access retro-reflecting materials data (road markings, license plates, automotive paints) for more accurate modeling of sensor perception in autonomous vehicles.
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Extensive Optical Library
Select source, material, sensor and standard models in this online resource to get a physically correct simulation of your digital product.
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Ansys SPEOS HPC
With SPEOS HPC Add-On, shorten your simulation times, get very high-quality results and quickly evaluate systems in super-high resolution.
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See how our customers are using our software:
China Euro Vehicle Technology (CEVT)
China Euro Vehicle Technology (CEVT) is an innovation company focused on key automotive areas, including exterior lighting. Optical engineers at CEVT rely on Ansys’ physics-based simulations to meet and exceed design challenges. The resulting technology solutions are used to test innovative concepts in new car models and in discussions with expert suppliers. Simulation speeds up innovation and validation to push boundaries for what is possible both in-house and in supplier relationships.
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LiteOn
Lite-On Technologies wants to offer advanced HUD solutions to their customers, with innovative and differentiating technologies including windshield and combiner display. To this end, they are using ANSYS SPEOS for the analysis and design of their HUDs, and benefit from a streamlined solution to provide an accurate optical simulation.
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ALMECO
ANSYS SPEOS provides ALMECO with highly-realistic visualizations of its aluminum reflectors, used for a full experience in virtual reality. ALMECO’s Engineering department was able to quickly explore several use cases, and to get a precise idea of the aspect and effect of the reflector’s capacities in its final environment, in life-like conditions. This new evaluation process cuts production time thanks to early decision-making in the design process and improves and customizes the product to truly meet the customer’s needs.
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SAFRAN Aerosystems
Safran Aerosystems develops civil and military solutions for applications at sea, on land, in the air and in space, including interior and exterior lighting and signaling as well as cockpit equipment. Using ANSYS SPEOS, the company designs and validates full lighting and signaling solutions based on LED technologies, testing large numbers of concepts and scenarios rapidly. Discover how, thanks to high-performance digital simulation, Safran Aerosystems is able to significantly reduce design and validation cost and time, thereby shortening the time to market for its equipment.
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