S-E-A

Overview

S-E-A was founded in 1970 in Columbus, Ohio, USA. For more than 35 years, S-E-A has been developing products and providing testing services to the automotive and off-road industries. With on-site testing surfaces capable of handling most vehicles, as well as ready access to local proving grounds, S-E-A provides organizations with the data they need to develop, refine or benchmark products.

Vehicle Dynamics Testing

With a team of experienced test engineers, S-E-A is well equipped to help your organization perform vehicle or component testing. In addition to our outdoor test surfaces, S-E-A also offers Vehicle and Component center of gravity (CoG) and inertia measurement services on our VIMF and C1000 machines.

Our facility features a low-speed, low-acceleration sled that can be used with a variety of fixtures to simulate rollovers, crashes and pitch-overs, and to study both the response of the vehicle and the occupants. We have performed tests with government agencies and with OEMs to study many different facets of vehicle behavior, occupant safety, and proof-of-concept solutions to enhance vehicle safety performance.

In addition to full-vehicle work, we often perform testing on sub-systems or components to analyze their performance under impact, load, or other conditions of interest. We provide thorough testing reports which detail our findings and results for organizations to use to guide their decisions.

Types of Custom Testing:

• Pedestrian and Bicyclist Automatic Emergency Brake scenarios
• Dynamics testing, including vehicle handling and stability work
• Center of Gravity, Moment of Inertia, and Product of Inertia measurements
• Unmanned driving scenarios: passenger vehicles, lawnmowers, ATVs, and ROVs
• Sled facility testing: Rollover, Pitchover, Impacts, and more.

Vehicle Dynamics Products

In addition to offering testing services, we also offer vehicle dynamics products to enable accurate and repeatable measurements and tests. Our suite of products began with our flag-ship product, the VIMF, and has since developed to include a remarkable variety of tools. Since our engineers use our products as well, your organization will benefit from tools designed with the test engineer in mind.

Our products include:

• VIMF (Vehicle Inertia Measurement Facility)
  • Versions available for passenger vehicles and for 100,000k capacity.
  • Installed in 10 locations around the world, at various OEM sites.
  • Measurement capability in Columbus for Formula vehicles, crash sleds, and more.
• C1000
  • Component level inertia measurement for tire wheel assemblies, seats, engines, and more (1000 lb. capacity).
• Light Vehicle Dynamometer
  • Speed, distance traveled, voltage, current, and temperature measurement capability for micromobility devices.
  • Vehicles that can be tested include hoverboards, skateboards, youth ATVs, e-bikes, segways, and unicycles.
  • Customization options available to change speed capacity, loading methods, throttle interfaces, and more.
• Driving Robots
  • Brake and Throttle robot allows speed control, and Steering robot for path following control of passenger and commercial vehicles.
  • Adaptions available for ruggedization for off-road testing, as well as for non-conventional steering systems.
• STRIDE
  • Low-profile over-runnable robot for use in pedestrian and bicyclist ADAS testing.

• Unique functionality and open-source code make this easy-to-use robot different from other platforms on the market, and more!