Paccar to Spec ZF Lane-Maintaining Help System – Gear

ZF introduced it’ll provide its OnTraX lane-keeping help expertise as non-obligatory gear on Kenworth and Peterbilt vehicles in-built 2023. The announcement marks the primary time ZF’s driver-assistance expertise shall be obtainable on a business automobile platform in North America.

ZF debuted its OnTraX lane-keeping help system again in 2018, touting it as a “constructing block” kind of admission to the technological platform established by its ReAx digital steering system. On the time, ZF mentioned it was speaking with varied OEMs about including OnTraX as non-obligatory gear in protecting the rising recognition of superior driver help system (ADAS) within the North American trucking trade.

“We’re more than happy to companion with a world chief like Paccar to combine this important security expertise into their latest truck platform,” mentioned Julien Plenchette, senior vice chairman of the Americas with ZF’s Industrial Automobile Options division. “We proceed to work intently with our business automobile clients to supply ADAS expertise that may assist to make the roadways safer for all vacationers.”

How ZF’s OnTraX Lane-Maintaining Help System Works

OnTrax prompts as soon as it determines the truck is inside its lane and touring 40-plus mph, or cruising pace.

• A forward-facing digicam “sees” the sides of a marked lane and allows the lane hold help expertise.
• If the tractor begins drifting out of its lane with out activating the flip sign, the system utilizing on-board processors, develops an motion plan.
• Then, the ReAX adaptive steering module adjusts the steering torque and provides a mild counter-steer – a slight nudge – to push the truck again into the suitable lane.

When the flip sign is on, the motive force can cross the lane with out intervention.The system can be designed to acknowledge important maneuvers, resulting from hand wheel pace enter from the motive force, and ceases correction throughout impediment avoidance.

Tom Otter, ZF’s aftermarket enterprise unit chief, advised HDT in 2018 that OnTrax was a “subsequent step in driver consolation, security, and management.” On the time, Otter famous, OnTraX works by combining data from the highway, automobile, digicam, and ReAX modules, to spice up and monitor steering management for the automobile. Utilizing that data, the system proactively helps drivers keep away from unintentional lane departures, detect and improve consciousness of driver fatigue and work together with and improve collision mitigation techniques on business autos.

The ZF OnTraX lane-keeping help system shall be produced at ZF’s Queretaro, Mexico, facility.