ATLAS

ADVANCED TELEMETRY
LINKED ACQUISITION SYSTEM
ATLAS is a software package which is used to obtain,
display and analyse data from control systems such as
those used within motorsport and automotive applications.

Familiar controls and extensive use of the mouse, menus

and accelerator keys make it easy to set up and to use.

ATLAS is used by the professional data analyst working

with data acquired by telemetry or uploaded from a data
logger. ATLAS is appropriate for an individual data
analyst or for many engineers all monitoring telemetry
together.

ATLAS is equally suitable for analysis of either lap or open

road based data.

Features Timeline

 Highly customizable, Workbook containing Pages ATLAS has several features to help you navigate through
and Displays your data. The Graphical Timeline acts as a specialised
scroll bar with the following features:
 Graphical Timeline for easy navigation through
data  Shows: Out lap, Timed laps and In lap

 View, analyse and compare live telemetry data with  The data currently on view is highlighted on the
uploaded logged data Timeline so you can easily see where you are

 Checks for automated monitoring of engine and  Mouse operations allow quick and easy lap selection
chassis
 Linkable displays, enabling the same period of time to
 Fast data handling to deal in real-time with the be shown, even when scrolling
large quantities of data
 Distance and Time modes are supported
 Highly customizable

 Extensive help with context sensitive links

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LINKED ACQUISITION SYSTEM
Displays  Scatter: shows the relationship of pairs of
Several types of display are provided to give you parameters in a cross plot.
different views of your data:

 Waveform: shows several parameters as

waveforms in an oscilloscope format.

 Many displays can show data in real time as it is

received by telemetry. Other displays can be
updated automatically as each lap is completed.

 You can Zoom in to magnify the view in the

Waveform and Scatter displays

 On-screen controls for: parameter layout; lap Other displays allow you to analyse your data:
offset adjustment; navigation and data selection
 Traces can be hidden or flashed  Loadmap: shows a 3D plot of one parameter
 Gradient and reference cursors against another. The third dimension is indicated by
 Automatic and manual scrolling a colour and shows the proportion of time spent with
both parameters in the specified ranges.
 Circuit: shows the location of the car on a map of  Histogram: shows the distribution of a parameter
the circuit. This display can be extensively against time
customised to show data at various selected points  Summary: shows statistics on selected parameters
on the track. ATLAS includes an easy to use for the whole session arranged by lap, section or
facility to generate the circuit map from recorded segment
data.  FFT: performs frequency analyses on the data.
The results can be shown as Fast Fourier
transforms, Transfer functions or Correlations
 Map: shows logged data superimposed on a 3D
wire frame of a 2D map

 InPlace: allows you to run ActiveX controls within

the ATLAS environment. The Active X controls
have full access to the data and can be manipulated
by the standard ATLAS menus.

 Bar: shows parameters as simple bar graphs

 Numeric: shows parameters as text

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Parameters Recording

ATLAS handles each item of incoming data as a ATLAS includes controls to record data from data loggers
parameter. The value of the parameter is displayed and either directly (by wirelink) or in real time (by telemetry)
analysed by including it in a Display:
 ATLAS supports both narrow and wide band
 Parameters are selected in a browser or dragged telemetry
from another display  Wide band telemetry can be used in Burst mode (all
 Parameter properties allow you to control how a the stored data is transmitted at one point on the
parameter is displayed: they may be either local to circuit) or Retransmission mode (all the stored data is
a single display or global to the whole workbook. continually retransmitted and ATLAS uses later
transmissions to fill-in drop outs and errors)
Analysis  ATLAS supports high speed wirelinks via 100Mbps
Ethernet
As well as the special analysis displays (Loadmap,  Ethernet telemetry allows you to view data at a test
Histogram, Summary and FFT), ATLAS offers the bed without any radio telemetry equipment
following analysis features:  Telemetry can be replayed
 The ATLAS package includes Data Servers. These
 Functions: (also known as Maths Channels) allow run on a dedicated PC which accepts incoming data
you to combine parameter values and perform and broadcasts it on a network to the PCs running
calculations on them. A sophisticated function ATLAS
editor is provided.  A special Data Server is available to accept data
 Checks: allow you to check the state of the car or from a Weather Station and to include it with session
engine automatically data
 Markers: pinpoint the time when something  Direct CAN logging.
interesting happens: they can be placed by hand or
automatically by a check or an ActiveX command Optional Product Extensions

Software Interfaces Several optional ATLAS extensions are available:

ATLAS can be used to in conjunction with other  Remote Data Server (RDS): Provides the ability to
Windows® applications: daisy chain two or more data servers remotely. For
example, to transmit and transfer live telemetry data
 ATLAS is ActiveX compliant and most ATLAS between track and factory locations.
commands are available to this interface
 The InPlace Display can be used to run other  vTAG Server: This control sits within ATLAS and
applications within ATLAS enables users to run MATLAB (Simulink)
 Session data can be Exported and Imported in simulations against ATLAS data.
various formats including MATLAB

rd
A 3 party Session DLL allows you to write drivers Licensing
to access other data formats
 Constants, used in functions, can be read from an ATLAS is licensed by a hardware device. This can take
external application such as a spreadsheet the following forms:
- USB dongle
- Site license by Ethernet

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