IEC TR 63583-1:2025

IEC TR 63583-1 ®
Edition 1.0 2025-04
TECHNICAL
REPORT
Multimedia systems and equipment for vehicles – Compact Driving Simulator
(CDS) –
Part 1: General
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IEC TR 63583-1 ®
Edition 1.0 2025-04
TECHNICAL
REPORT
Multimedia systems and equipment for vehicles – Compact Driving Simulator

(CDS) –
Part 1: General
INTERNATIONAL
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CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 3
INTRODUCTION . 5
1 Scope . 6
2 Normative references . 6
3 Terms, definitions and abbreviated terms . 6
3.1 Terms and definition . 6
3.2 Abbreviated terms. 6
4 System overview . 7
4.1 General . 7
4.2 Configuration of a driving simulator . 7
4.2.1 General. 7
4.2.2 Driving simulation software (DSS). 8
4.2.3 Driving simulation hardware (DSH) . 9
4.3 Configuration of a driving simulator . 9
5 Installation environment of CDS . 11
5.1 General . 11
5.2 Facility example for installing a CDS . 12
Annex A (informative) SIMREX (Simulation of Real Experience Compact Driving
Simulator), . 14
A.1 General . 14
A.2 System configuration of SIMREX . 14
A.2.1 General. 14
A.2.2 Cabin of SIMREX . 15
A.2.3 Monitor . 17
A.2.4 Simulation software . 17
A.2.5 DAQ test program . 18
A.2.6 Power module. 18
A.3 System specification of SIMREX . 19
Bibliography . 23

Figure 1 – Block diagram of a driving simulator. 8
Figure 2 – Block diagram of CDS . 10
Figure 3 – Interface between DSS and DSH in CDS . 10
Figure 4 – An example of a general appearance . 11
Figure 5 – An example of a reference measurement (unit: mm) . 12
Figure 6 – Example of a field of view (FOV) . 12
Figure A.1 – System configuration of SIMREX . 15
Figure A.2 – Configuration of SIMREX cabin . 16
Figure A.3 – Structure of SIMREX_CDS simulation software . 17
Figure A.4 – DAQ test program . 18
Figure A.5 – Power module . 19

Table 1 – Operation environment . 13
Table A.1 – SIMREX system specification . 20

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MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS AND EQUIPMENT FOR VEHICLES –
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Part 1: General
FOREWORD
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IEC TR 63583-1 has been prepared by technical area 17: Multimedia systems and equipment
for vehicles, of IEC technical committee 100: Audio, video and multimedia systems and
equipment. It is a Technical Report.
The text of this Technical Report is based on the following documents:
Draft Report on voting
100/4266/DTR 100/4324/RVDTR
Full information on the voting for its approval can be found in the report on voting indicated in
the above table.
The language used for the development of this Technical Report is English.

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A list of all parts in the IEC 63583 series, published under the general title Multimedia systems
and equipment for vehicles – Compact driving simulator (CDS), can be found on the IEC website.
The committee has decided that the contents of this document will remain unchanged until the
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specific document. At this date, the document will be
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• revised.
INTRODUCTION
A driving simulator is a simulator for the driving of cars and other ground vehicles.
Driving simulators are used for entertainment as well as in the training of driver's education
courses taught in educational institutions and private businesses. They are also used for
research purposes in the area of human factors and medical research, to monitor driver
behaviour, performance, and attention. In the car industry, they are used to design and evaluate
new vehicles or new advanced driver assistance systems.
There are many kinds of simulators, such as ambulance simulators, car simulators, modular-
design simulators, multi-station driving simulators, truck simulators, bus simulators, and
physical simulators. This document focuses on the car simulator, which is used to train and test
novice drivers in all the skills required to pass a driver's license road test as well as hazard
perception and crash risk mitigation. A driving simulator is one of the representative areas for
the application of systems integration technology. It includes computer-simulated education and
training processes and provides for repetitive and empirical learning in immersive virtual
environments.
There are several kinds of driving simulators, such as mini-driving simulators (MDS), compact
driving simulators (CDS), and VR-based driving simulators (VDS).
The IEC 63583 series consists of two parts:
Part 1: General
Part 2: XR-based CDS .
In this document, a general description of CDS is given.

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MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS AND EQUIPMENT FOR VEHICLES –
COMPACT DRIVING SIMULATOR (CDS) –

Part 1: General
1 Scope
This part of IEC TR 63583, which is a technical report, specifies the system overview of the
compact driving simulator (CDS), which is a virtual education and training system and a
compact version of a driving simulator.
2 Normative references
There are no normative references in this document.
3 Terms, definitions and abbreviated terms
3.1 Terms and definition
3.1.1
driving simulator
simulator for the driving of cars and other ground vehicles
3.1.2
compact driving simulator
compact version of a driving simulator, which is a small-sized simulator that reproduces only
the driver's seat of a vehicle
3.1.3
cabin
driver's compartment constructed with components mirroring those of an actual carand which
aims to provide a driver with a real driving environment with a control system and seat
3.2 Abbreviated terms
ASWS active steering wheel system
CD car dashboard
CDS compact driving simulator
CLS control loading system
DAQ data acquisition
DSH driving simulation hardware
DSS driving simulation software
FOV field of view
GUI graphic user interface
LCD liquid crystal display
MDS mini-driving simulator
MS motion system
RPM revolutions per minute
RTOS real-time operation software

SE simulation engine
SS sound system
VD visual database
VDS vehicle-dynamic software
VR-HMD virtual reality head-mounted display
VS visual system
4 System overview
4.1 General
The concept of virtual education and training systems is introduced in the white paper
"Guidelines for Developing VR and AR Based Education and Training Systems" of
ISO/IEC JTC 1/VR AR for Education Ad Hoc Group in which was published in 2019 [1] . It
provides guidelines for developing VR- and AR-based education and training systems but
excludes device hardware technology for virtual education and training systems.
The publication IEC e-tech introduced some TCs/SCs dealing with hardware and software used
in the simulation technology in their 'Behind the virtual wheel' issue titled "Simulation technology
helps advance autonomous vehicles and intelligent transport", published on 21 May 2017 [2].
A driving simulator is a type of virtual reality system that simulates the steering, accelerator,
and decelerator pedal operations that a driver performs while driving a vehicle in a driving
simulator, predicting the motion of the vehicle and delivering feedback results to the driver
through kinetic, visual, and sound signals. It is a virtual reality system that makes drivers feel
as though they are driving a vehicle, even in a driving simulator.
This document introduces a hardware technology for driving simulators. The issue of safety is
out of scope of this document.
NOTE Safety-related issues are dealt with
...