Your simulator is only as good as the software it runs on. Panthera ensures real-time responsiveness with low latency, high computational efficiency, and smooth integration of inputs, outputs, and software components. Designed for seamless engineering tool integration, Panthera ensures real experiences in a virtual world.

Panthera’s distributed computing architecture is designed for unrestricted scalability, adapting to any simulator type or size. Whether expanding a simple setup or managing a complex multi-node system, Panthera provides centralised control, ensuring efficient coordination and performance across all components.

Panthera is designed to maximise network bandwidth and computational efficiency, enabling smooth data transfer across all connected systems. By leveraging UDP for signals and TCP for commands, it ensures low-latency signal transmission while maintaining reliable command execution for stable and responsive simulation performance.

Panthera’s multi-platform SDK allows integration with any engineering or research tools. With multiple programming language support, you can develop in your preferred environment while maintaining full control over signal distribution and system integration.

We understand that as a developer, you want complete control over your simulator software toolchain. That’s why we built Panthera to complement your development process.
With Panthera, you get the benefits of a robust, high-performance simulation framework, without sacrificing flexibility or control.

CoreBox acts as the central hub of your DIL system, providing real-time control over signal distribution and processing. Running on dedicated hardware with Linux OS, it ensures sub 0,1 millisecond latency on critical signal flows, keeping the simulation accurately synchronised using a common clock.

Panthera simplifies system updates with software package distribution and GIT-based version control to track simulator configuration changes. This keeps your entire system consistent, traceable, and easy to manage.

With remote access and support, you can efficiently manage, monitor, and troubleshoot your simulation environment. Centralised logging and archiving ensure that all processes and hardware performance (e.g., CPU and GPU load monitoring) are easily accessible and trackable.

The Panthera Operator SDK enables you to quickly create intuitive GUIs, allowing operators to focus on experiments and participants instead of complex simulation software

A visual system is crucial for self-motion perception. Panthera’s visualisation module, built on Unity, delivers high-end rendering with the latest NVIDIA GPU features, including pre-processed ray tracing, DLSS, and PBR for realistic lighting and detail. Designed for Driver-in-the-Loop (DIL) simulation, Panthera supports various display systems, including projections, LED walls, and HMDs. It features automatic warping and blending (Scalable), motion compensation, low latency, and frame rates up to 240 fps. With a vast Unity developer community and content creation tools, Panthera provides a powerful, flexible rendering solution for immersive simulation experiments.

Realistic DIL simulation requires not just visual accuracy, but also precise surface feedback for the tire models. Tyre-road surface interaction is the starting point for exciting tyre and suspension models, ultimately controlling the motion system. For the motion platform to perform at its full potential, road surface queries are key. The Panthera SISTer module (Server for Interaction with Surfaces and Terrains) processes high-speed surface queries, ensuring accurate road interaction for vehicle dynamics models. By offloading surface queries to a separate process on a dedicated computer, SISTer enhances performance and supports various road surface formats, including splines, triangular meshes, LiDAR point cloud data, OpenDrive, and OpenCRG. It can handle up to 2000 queries per tire per second, delivering precise values for road height, and normal, and attributes such as grip factor, rolling resistance, and surface type, ensuring a highly detailed and responsive simulation.

The Panthera Motion Controller provides seamless control over a wide range of motion systems, including E2M, VHT, Dynisma and RoRa, handling essential functions such as engaging, disengaging, and resetting, all independently from the software supplied with the motion platform. Motion can be fully controlled from within the Panthera framework, resulting in smooth operation.
The motion controller translates vehicle model accelerations into motion within the workspace of the platform, creating a realistic self-motion perception for the driver.

The Panthera Audio Player is a Unity-based application that uses the FMOD sound engine and audio banks to deliver high-quality, spatial audio. By running FMOD within Unity, the system dynamically adjusts sound based on the position of sound sources in the virtual world, enhancing realism and immersion for the driver.

The Panthera Reference Vehicle Model (PRVM) is a robust reference model designed to verify and validate the proper functioning of the full simulator, while also serving as a vehicle model for experiments that do not focus on vehicle dynamics. It delivers a realistic driving experience, ensuring relevant driver behaviour and feedback for HMI validation and human factors research. PRVM is included in every Panthera installation, providing a ready-to-use and easy-to-manage vehicle model for various research and testing applications.

Integrating a vehicle model is essential when using a simulator as an engineering tool. The Panthera ModelControl module manages the integration of various vehicle models, ensuring low latency and refresh rates up to 2 kHz.

The Panthera Traffic Bridge connects traffic simulation tools with your driving simulator. It supports commonly used traffic engines, including SUMO, VTD, and ASM, ensuring compatibility with industry-standard tools.
The traffic bridge streams ego vehicle positions to the traffic simulation tool and retrieves position data of traffic agents for visualisation in the simulator. The position information of the traffic vehicles is interpolated to create smooth images, rotating wheels and chassis rotations.

The iMotions Bridge forwards vehicle and simulation data to the iMotions software, enabling advanced HMI and Human Factors research. By correlating biometric recordings with scenario events, vehicle parameters, and driver inputs, researchers gain deeper insights into human behaviour and cognitive responses during simulations.