VETRONICS

BATTLE VETRONICS (CVRDE)

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES VETRONICS FOR
MANAGEMENT HULL MANAGEMENT
Rapid control prototyping.
SYSTEMS
Hardware in the loop

simulation.
Environmental Standards.
EMI / EMC Compliance EMBEDDED
DSP Controller for
INTERNET
Gun Control System and
(MIL STD 1553B) BUS /
Fire control system
CAN BUS

ACTIVE AUTOMATIC ELECTRONIC

TRANSMISSION
SUSPENSION FUEL MANAGEMENT
CONTROL
 In Vehicle Networking For Armoured Fighting Vehicles

Integrated Fire Gunners Controls/

BMS
Control System Display

Commanders Gunners Commanders Turret

Independent Primary Sight Controls/Display Mission
Thermal Viewer Unit Computer

ENHANCED
SLIP RING

1553B DATA BUS

Digital Multi Hull Power

Electronics Sensor Distribution Unit
Control Unit Suite

Position Hull Drivers

Navigation Mission Integrated
System Computer Display
 HULL ELECTRICAL SYSTEM OF AFVs

Instrument
Instrument Instrument
Instrument
Gear
Panel
Panel L.
L. H
H Panel
Panel R.
R. H
H
Selector To Lighting
Equipment

Electronic
Electronic To Fuel
Fuel Pump Drivers
Engine Control
Control
Control Pumps Control Switch
Junction Box
Box Box Board
Box

Generator
and Master 24V / 400 AH
Transmission Engine Relay Box Battery
Regulator
 SYSTEM CONFIGURATION OF VETRONICS FOR HULL MANAGEMENT

TERMINATION AT TURRET
TERMINATOR DUAL REDUNDANT MILSTD 1553B BUS

RBJ

BUS BUS BUS

BUS COUPLER COUPLER COUPLER BUS
COUPLER BUS
COUPLER
TCP / IP TCP / IP COUPLER
Pentium Intel COMMUNICATION FOR COMMUNICATION FOR
Mobile Module SYNCHRONIZATION SYNCHRONIZATION
HANDLER HANDLER
MIL BUS ACE
Pentium Intel
HULL HULL DISPLAY DISPLAY
Mobile Module
CONTROLLER CONTROLLER CONTROLLER CONTROLLER MIL BUS ACE
(ACTIVE ) (STANDBY) (ACTIVE) (STANDBY)
pSOS pSOS pSOS pSOS

IDE &
DEBUG DRIVERS
IDE & IDE & IDE &
DEBUG MUX DEBUG MUX DUPLICATING
DEBUG
SERIAL DISPLAY

SERIAL
ENGINE COMMUNICATION
CONTROL
ENCLOSURE ELECTRO LUMINESCENT FLAT PANEL
GSL TOUCH SCREEN DISPLAY DRIVERS
INSTRUMENT
Hard Switches PANEL
FROM/TO
POWER PACK

Master Pre Emergency Start Deep APU Emergency

Key Glow start lock fording ON shutdown
Switch Start
 Functional Requirements

Direction Selection.
Starting system, Fuel injection System.
Control functions for Engine Gear selection in manual mode and auto mode.
Generating System.
Operation. Automatic upshift / downshift in both modes.
Gear sensing control for transmission
Automatic Transmission Control Steering in motion, pivot turn and neutral turn.
override. Lighting Control Retarder operation.
Braking system. Integrated Fuel Level Monitoring
Lockup engagement and disengagement.
Shutdown system.
Safety features.
System for all tanks including
Nose-fuel Tank.

Data logging Processor based control

Capabilities Overall reduced re-action time
BITE Capabilities Flexibility
for the complete Hull
Dual Redundancy Economization of space

Electrical System
C4I Capability via
MIL STD 1553B Bus

Excellent Man-Machine Interface

through appealing graphics and touch
Drivers Duplicating
buttons Display
Access of extensive data base on-line
via multiple page set-up
 SOFTWARE - VETRONICS
C Language pSOS
Application Software Engineering Software
Transmission control logic for Real Time Operating system (RTOS)
manual and auto mode. General Purpose Monitor.(GPM).
Engine control logic.
Digital Input/ Output handler.
Avoidance of dry run of fuel pumps.
Monitoring of Brake Motor fluid and Analog Input Handler.
pressure levels. MIL STD 1553 Handler
A comprehensive display / MMI for Serial link Handler 1 (Duplicating
the driver in both the cabin and head Display)
out positions.
Emergency management to take care Serial link Handler 2 (Touch panel)
of failures at various levels within Serial link Handler 3 (TCP/IP)
the system. Serial link Handler 4 ( Debug)
Dual redundancy at the controller Diagnostics and Health Reporting.
level.
Fault Handler.
BITE mode.
Software utilities ( disk drive and
Integrated fuel level monitoring of all
Integrated fuelNose
tanks including monitoring
fuel tank. of all tanks including nose fuel tank.
printer)
VEHICLE SPEED SENSOR

SPEED
SPEED
MEASUREMENT
MEASUREMENT
CIRCUIT
CIRCUIT TRANSMISSION
ASSEMBLY
ENGINE SPEED SENSOR

S4
1 O O S3
P P
S2
2 T T
O O S1
3 MICROPROCESSOR
SF
I C BASED I C
GEAR 4 S I CONTROLLER S I SR
SELECTOR O R O R SP
UNIT L C L C
F A U A U SLU
T I T I SA
R
O T O T
R R SD
P
DISPLAY SB
N SC
SRE

ACCELERATOR BRAKE RS232 DRIVERS

PEDAL STEERING
PARKING BRAKE TO PC FOR CONTROL
PADEL DIAGNOSTICS PANEL
HANDLE
 GEAR
GEARSHIFT
SHIFT DIAGRAM
DIAGRAMOF
OF TRANSMISSION
TRANSMISSIONCONTROLLER
CONTROLLER

ENGINE SPEED (rpm) 3083 Engine rpm

1 GEAR
st
2nd GEAR 3rd GEAR
2916

65.5 km/hr
17.7 km/hr

34.85 km/hr
4th GEAR

2400

52.46 km/hr
30.64 km/hr
15.2 km/hr

28.29 km/hr

45.3 km/hr
27.83 km/hr

41.9 km/hr
2000

39.07 km/hr
LU Clutch ON
KD ON
LU Clutch OFF
LU Clutch ON KD OFF
LU Clutch OFF
1000

0 OUTPUT SPEED
(rpm)
500 1000 1500 2000

0 VEHICLE SPEED
5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 (Km/hr)
 INTEGRATED TOUCH SCREEN DISPLAY
1200 50

0 2400 123456 Engine

123456 0 100 Indicator
Engine RPM Vehicle Speed
(Km/Hr) Maintenance

5
1670
Shut Down
0 110 2.5
1000
Start
270 90 1
500
0
0 Transmission
Indicator
18
Gun 0Position Fuel Coolant Temp Oil Pressure
.((C) Deep Fording
(Ltrs.) (Bar)

Fault Status
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Engine starting logic viz.
Normal start through RTUs. PERFORMANCES VALIDATED
PERFORMANCES VALIDATED
Electrical start through conventional
push button (stand by).
Emergency start.
Engine shut down logic viz.
Control of fuel pumps.
Normal shut down.
Automatic operation of Bilge pumps.
Emergency shut down.
Lighting control logic.
Automatic shut down.
Monitoring of fuel level in various fuel tanks.
Transmission control logic viz.
Auto run of the hull
Direction Selection.
Redundancy function of RTUs.
Gear Selection.
Data logging / BITE capabilities.
Safety features.
Environmental test on the reduced set.
EMI/EMC test on the reduced set.
 VETRONICS AND THE FUTURE

Integration
Integration ofof all
all subsystem
subsystem of
of aa tank
tank via
via MILSTD1553B
MILSTD1553B Bus.
Bus.
Total
Total turret
turret Management
Management & & Hull
Hull Management.
Management.

Open
Open system
system architecture.
architecture.

Fast
Fast Ethernet
Ethernet Bus
Bus -- video
video data
data link
link between
between crew
crew stations.
stations.

Robust
Robust Operating
Operating system
system pSOS
pSOS caters
caters for
for entire
entire software
software
load
load of
of Armoured
Armoured Fighting
Fighting Vehicles.
Vehicles.

Active
Active matrix
matrix LCDs
LCDs for
for crew
crew cockpit
cockpit
 CONCLUSION

Future Tank would be

A Digital Vehicle.
The software making the ultimate
digital difference.