AVL and Ansible Motion Partner to Enhance Vehicle Simulation Experience

PLYMOUTH, MI – March 17, 2026 — AVL Mobility Technologies, Inc. (AVL) and Ansible Motion announce their partnership to provide vehicle manufacturers and suppliers AVL VSM^TM software with Ansible Motion’s Driver-in-the-Loop Simulators. This one-two punch in virtual development will allow users to develop components and vehicles quicker by significantly reducing development, testing and validation time and cost.

AVL VSM is a comprehensive and flexible real-time simulation tool that enables the user to model components, systems and complete vehicles. It allows users to test vehicle dynamics and performance in realistic scenarios, which is crucial for optimizing vehicles characteristics and ensuring safety. VSM enables a more integrated approach to vehicle design and optimization by allowing simultaneous consideration of various vehicle attributes and components and how they interact with each other.

When VSM is paired with an Ansible Motion Driver-in-the-Loop simulator, the user can test the changes to the virtual model and refine the chassis dynamics, powertrain drivability, ADAS and active safety function calibration with a virtual test drive.

“By combining AVL VSM with Ansible Driver-in-the-Loop simulators, manufacturers can move critical decisions to the front of the development cycle dramatically reducing physical prototypes and test iterations,“ says Gary Newton, AVL’s Vice President of Business Development. “This tool combination can have an enormous impact on timeline and budget. Imagine validating 70+ track scenarios per day in multiple conditions, surfaces and drive events. The result isn’t incremental improvement—it’s months saved and millions preserved.“

Salman Safdar, Ansible Motion’s Business Development Director, adds: “Through our continuing collaborative efforts with AVL, we’re developing new ways to conduct subjective and objective evaluations of qualified concepts much earlier in the vehicle design cycle. Connecting our simulators seamlessly with a feature-rich simulation environment like AVL VSM elevates the virtual vehicle development process for manufacturers seeking to shorten development times, realize cost savings, and reduce environmental impacts.“

Taking this a step further, AVL has installed an Ansible Motion Theta Seat simulator in their Ann Arbor, Michigan Technical Center so customers can “test drive“ the VSM + Ansible Motion combo. This is especially impactful when paired with the technology in AVL’s test cells. Customers can take their virtual models and further the development with AVL‘s Software-in-the-Loop (SiL), Hardware-in-the-Loop (HiL) and Virtual Test Bed (VTB) solutions in AVL’s Advanced Mobility & Simulation Lab.