Automotive Test
For more than 10 years Control Techniques
has been applying drives to
test applications in the automotive industry. During this
time we have supplied equipment to the majority of car
manufacturers and Formula 1 teams. Unidrive SP is a high
precision drive system that is well adapted to driving
automotive test stand equipment. Typical test applications
include:
- Rolling road dynamometers
- Engine test stands
- Transmission test stands
- Wind tunnels

Unidrive SP offers some of the following significant
benefits in test stand applications:
- Real time drive-to-drive network for multi drive
synchronisation
- Fast current loop for dynamic test applications
- Linear torque control within 1% of demand using motor
temperature compensation
- Wide speed range, from 0 - 400Hz in closed loop
applications
- Speed set-point accuracy of 0.001 rpm
- DC bus and regenerative configurations