COMPUTER PROGRAMS FOR PERFORMANCE TESTING OF VEHICLES

A set of computer programs has been developed for acquiring, storing and displaying data obtained from performance testing of vehicles. The interactive programs are applicable to machine tests ranging from power measurements for a riding lawn mower to determination of the line-of-draft on agricultural tractors. The programs display measured and calculated variables as time history plots or as time-at-level distributions. Averages are calculated and statistical and regression analysis programs summarize results.