Customer Solutions

Hyundai Kia Motors Uses Virtual Instrumentation to Develop Next Generation Test and Power Systems

Author(s):

Hyuk Joon Lee, Hyundai Kia Motors; Keum Jin Park, Hyundai Kia Motors

Industry:

Automotive

Product:

DIAdem, LabVIEW, PXI/CompactPCI

The Challenge:

Designing customized test systems and powerful data acquisition for automotive applications.

The Solution:

Using NI software and hardware to develop these systems with greater effinciency and reliability.

"Analog signal measurement, CAN communication, and accurate counter/timer solutions are critical for solving advanced automotive research, development, and test application challenges. Using the traditional method, it was very challenging to integrate different types of devices from various vendors. However, after adopting the PXI platform powered by National Instruments LabVIEW, it was possible to create a customized test system that integrated all of our test needs into one unified system. The adoption greatly increased the efficiency in building a new test system."

 Hyuk Joon Lee, Senior Research Engineer, Hyundai Kia Motors, Korea

"I am using NI data acquisition to develop next-generation power systems and NI DIAdem to analyze automotive data. NI products are very powerful and reliable for all types of automotive applications. Even a beginner can easily use NI solutions. I can successfully meet all of my job needs and confidently recommended NI solutions to my colleagues."

"DIAdem was the perfect software application to solve our complicated automotive questions. DIAdem offers important mathematical and statistical functions suitable to tackle various automotive application challenges. Using DIAdem, we built professional and very visual analysis reports for various hybrid tests. We are particularly impressed with its capability to synchronize various raw/calculated signals of discrepant sampling rates and its auto scripting ability that records users’ actions and automatically generates reusable programming code. Ultimately, we learned the detailed characteristics of the hybrid vehicles using DIAdem."

Keum Jin Park, Senior Research Engineer, Hyundai Kia Motors, Korea