ISO/TS 13499:2014

TECHNICAL ISO/TS
SPECIFICATION 13499
Second edition
2014-03-01
Road vehicles — Multimedia data
exchange format for impact tests
Véhicules routiers — Format d’échange de données multimédia pour
les essais de choc
Reference number
ISO/TS 13499:2014(E)
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Contents Page
Foreword .iv
1 Scope . 1
2 Normative references . 1
3 Terms and definitions . 1
4 General requirements . 3
4.1 Physical units . 3
4.2 Data types . 3
4.3 NOVALUE . 3
4.4 Filename convention . 3
5 File types . 3
5.1 Information files . 3
5.2 Data files . 4
5.3 Comment files . 4
6 File organization . 5
6.1 Directory structure . 5
6.2 Main directory . 6
6.3 Subdirectories . 6
6.4 Files . 7
7 Data formats . 8
8 Related electronic documents . 8
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Foreword
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The committee responsible for this document is ISO/TC 22, Road vehicles, Subcommittee SC 12, Passive
safety crash protection systems.
This second edition of ISO/TS 13499 cancels and replaces the first edition of ISO/TS 13499:2003, which
has been technically revised.
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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION ISO/TS 13499:2014(E)
Road vehicles — Multimedia data exchange format for
impact tests
1 Scope
This Technical Specification presents a simple means for the exchange of multimedia data on impact
tests between different laboratories. A format has been developed which defines a directory structure
and the exchange information as ASCII files. Related electronic documents are available on the ISO
website.
2 Normative references
The following referenced documents are indispensable for the application of this document. For dated
references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced
document (including any amendments) applies.
ISO 80000-1, Quantities and units — Part 1: General
ISO 6487, Road vehicles — Measurement techniques in impact tests — Instrumentation
ISO 8601, Data elements and interchange formats — Information interchange — Representation of dates
and times
ISO/IEC 8859-1, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 1: Latin
alphabet No. 1
3 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document and all related electronic documents, the following terms and
definitions apply.
3.1
test number
code specific to the test
Note 1 to entry: In this document and all related electronic documents it is referenced as .
3.2
test object
group of components with the same initial state (e.g. speed, direction of movement) at impact time
Note 1 to entry: In this document and all related electronic documents it is referenced as .
3.3
channel code
code consisting of 16 characters, composed of a sequence of codes with a fixed length and specific order,
defining test object, position, main location, fine locations, physical dimension, direction and filter class
in
Note 1 to entry: This document and all related electronic documents the complete channel code is referenced as
.
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EXAMPLE 1 1 HEAD LE 00 H3 AC X A
Meaning: Test object = 1 Vehicle no. 1 referenced as
Position = 1 Front left referenced as
Main location = HEAD Dummy head referenced as
Fine location 1 = LE Center of gravity
Fine location 2 = 00 Undefined
Fine location 3 = H3 H III dummy
Dimension = AC Acceleration
Direction = X X-direction
Filter class = A CFC 1000 see ISO 6487
3.4
reference system
three dimensional coordinate system which belongs to a test rig, a test object or a part of a test object
Note 1 to entry: For each used reference system a specific identifier has to be defined.
3.5
channel code extension
data from different data sources or within different reference systems for the same measurement
position described by a specific have to be distinguished
Note 1 to entry: For this reason and for future purposes an extension of the is necessary. In this
document and all related electronic documents this extension is referenced as . For details see
4.4, 5.2 and the related electronic document A.
3.6
media type
multimedia data of vehicle safety tests which is from the same type is grouped to media types
EXAMPLE Photo, movie and channel.
Note 1 to entry: In this document and all related electronic documents this is referenced as .
3.7
quaternion
ambiguities of trigonometric functions can be avoided when a rotation matrix with algebraic functions
is used, the three independent rotations are described by four algebraic parameters the quaternion qw,
qx, qy and qz
Note 1 to entry: For details see the related electronic document A.
3.8
descriptor
text with a maximum length of 28 characters identifying specific information
Note 1 to entry: Tabulation stops (ASCII 9) are not allowed. Case sensitivity is not required.
3.9
line delimiter
“carriage return” (ASCII 13) followed by a “line feed” (ASCII 10)
Note 1 to entry: The line length is not limited.
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3.10
column separator
one or multiple tabulation stops (ASCII 9) or one or multiple blanks (ASCII 32)
3.11
separator line
“#Start of data” separating the header from the data section in all data files
4 General requirements
4.1 Physical units
All data have to be expressed in SI units in accordance with ISO 80000, if not explicitly specified in the
related electronic documents. In particular, acceleration, a, has to be given in metres per second squared
2
(m/s ) and velocity, v, in metres per second (m/s).
4.2 Data types
The data values have to be in ASCII in accordance with ISO 8859-1 with the decimal symbol being a dot
(ASCII 46). Valid basic data types are integer, float and string. Generic data types are date and datetime
in accordance with ISO 8601 and coded, reference and filereference. The data types are defined in the
related electron
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