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Press Release
Opal-RT Challenge X's Sponsored Universities Win First Competition
Helping students to build a vehicle that will minimize energy consumption, emissions, and green house gases.
MONTREAL- August 18, 2005 - Opal-RT Technologies Inc., (www.opal-rt.com), the world leader in distributed simulation on PC-based platforms is signed up as a silver sponsor of the Challenge X Competition. Opal-RT is proud to announce that for the first competition that took place in June, all three universities sponsored came in the top five.
University of Waterloo came in first place, University of Akron came in second place and Pennsylvania State University came in fifth place.
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1st Place Winners University of Waterloo |
2nd Place Winners University of Akron |
The Challenge X competition is being held by General Motors (GM) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The Challenge X is a three-year competition that will give engineering universities an opportunity to participate in hands-on research and development with leading-edge automotive propulsion, fuels, materials and emissions-control technologies.
Silver Sponsorship
As a silver sponsor, Opal-RT has provided several hardware and software products; FPGA I/O boards, RT-LAB software, ARTEMIS blockset with switching compensation, RedHawk Linux, and Ethernet crossover cables. Opal-RT will also offer training and support to the Challenge X teams to help them integrate the technologies into their vehicle projects.
Softing North America (www.softing.us) has also provided all three of Opal-RT Challenge X teams, University of Akron, University of Waterloo and Pennsylvania State University with a Can-AC2-PCI card. This can-card will help each team with their model development.
Challenge X Competition Objectives
June 2005 of Challenge X’s first year, the 17 teams were challenged to re-engineer a GM Equinox, a crossover sport utility vehicle to minimize energy consumption, emissions, and greenhouse gases while maintaining or exceeding the vehicle's utility and performance, met to undergo extensive judging and evaluation.
Teams received scores for five reports:
- Pre-competition hardware evaluation
- Oral presentation
- Live simulation event
- Trade-show booth event
- Control strategy oral presentation and K-12 education outreach program.
Opal-RT provided Akron University, Waterloo University and Pennsylvania State University with hardware and software for the five reports in June. Leading them to their victory winnings of the competition and scoring high on all five reports.
The second and third year will require teams to develop and integrate their advanced powertrain and subsystems into a donated GM Equinox. At the conclusion of each of these competition years, teams will come together to undergo extensive judging and evaluation. Events will encompass energy use and emissions goals, vehicle utility and performance, engineering, and K-12 Education Outreach.
For more information about Challenge X: http://www.challengex.org
About Opal-RT Technologies Inc.
Opal-RT provides software, hardware, and related solutions for real-time simulation applications, with the aim of enabling real-time parallel processing through flexible and affordable technologies.
The company offers a full range of engineering simulation products - from enabling technologies to turnkey engineering simulators - and consulting services that include systems integration, software development, simulation and modeling, problem-solving, and training. Opal-RT's core expertise is in distributed hard-real-time simulation, with experienced engineers designing real-time simulators for automotive, electrical power, aerospace, robotics, and other industries where fidelity and fault tolerance requirements push rapid prototyping and hardware-in-the-loop testing to their limits. Opal-RT's unique approach integrates parallel, distributed computing with commercial-off-the-shelf technologies. The resulting RT-LAB product range enables customers to develop simulations quickly, easily, affordably, and competitively. For more information about Opal-RT's range of Engineering Simulators and Distributed Processing Tools, see www.opal-rt.com.
About RT-LAB
RT-LAB is the real-time technology that revolutionizes the way model-based design is performed within the engineering organization. Through its openness, RT-LAB has the flexibility to be applied to any simulation and control problem, and scalability to provide a low-risk entry point for any application, allowing the developer to add computation power where and when needed-whether to dramatically speed up simulations or for real-time hardware-in-the-loop applications.
Contact
Kirsty Whitefield
Tel: 1-877-935-2323, x235
Email: kirsty.whitefield@opal-rt.com
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