The special exhibition Mercedes-Benz Design at School presents futuristic vehicle concepts ranging from a space shuttle to a polar vehicle. The fascinating studies are the fruits of a cooperation project which Mercedes-Benz Design has been pursuing for several years now with national and international colleges of further education.
At the 2011 North American International Detroit Auto Show, Mercedes-Benz enthrals visitors with an art object. Interior Design at Mercedes-Benz in Germany has created a sculpture that expresses visually that which inspires designers.
At this year’s Los Angeles Design Challenge, the designers from the Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design Studios in Carlsbad, California, surprised everyone with a revolutionary vision. Taking their inspiration from nature, they designed a vehicle which is fully integrated into the ecosystem.
Ludger Dragon is a co-creator of digital prototypes at Daimler. As far as he is concerned, using new CGI technologies also represents a sporting challenge:
“A good engineer extensively tests all of the alternatives. That’s why we already take account of the Mercedes-Benz-specific driving behavior while conducting the simulations. The fine-tuning is done in real-life tests, for which many different variants are first examined in simulations. In order to assess a new ESP® control unit, for example, our test engineers not only use a real-life test track, but also a virtual test rig. The vehicle in the real-life test is driven a few laps during which a wide variety of driving maneuvers are performed. In comparison, the virtual test drive is much faster and uses results from the real-life test to validate its findings. In a laborious task, the computer also analyzes additional driving situations and in-depth tests. As a result, we are able to achieve our goal much faster and offer our customers vehicles characterized by a top driving performance.”
On a hot summer’s day, it’s not unusual for vehicles parked near tall buildings to be subject to brilliant sunlight one minute and shade the next. The Powerwall, which is as high as a normal ceiling and six meters wide, shows design specialists exactly how a future vehicle’s alternative designs and model variants will appear under alternating lighting conditions. In front of the designer on the glass table is a small vehicle model. This can be used as a joystick for manipulating the real-time animation on the projection surface. If the designer moves the model slightly to the left, the life-size virtual prototype moves in the same manner. In this way, the vehicle can slowly be turned all the way around so that it can be analyzed from every angle. Not only can users change the viewing angle on their own; they don’t need specialized skills or the assistance of an additional operator to control the computer display.
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