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Automotive Infotronics Private Limited (AIPL is a Joint Venture between Ashok Leyland, India and Continental AG, Germany) has been working on a body control solution for the commercial vehicle segment over the last few years. The units developed meet the stringent IP66 ingress protection requirement (dust and water) for Indian market applications. Due to the “closed” nature of the enclosure, thermal design for the device is done in such a way so that heat can be dissipated through the metallic enclosure. The electronic design is modular so that a variety of applications can be handled with the same basic design. Finally, a big step is taken in the creation of the application software that is fully model-based and “auto-coded” [6]. With the adoption of model-based design, this unit makes itself completely flexible where a host of customer specific (and/or customer owned) strategies can be seamlessly integrated with the basic application software.

Modern armoured fighting vehicles are built with high performance gun and turret laying and stabilization systems, which provide high first round hit probability on the move against stationary and moving targets. The future battlefield scenarios demand much higher performance from the gun and turret stabilization systems of the armoured fighting vehicles to meet future threats. The higher performance of the stabilization system could be ensured only through improved drive components and more complex controller configurations with no degradation in performance over the complete operating temperature range from -55 to +125 degrees Celsius which can be made possible using latest DSP based Digital Controller. This paper was aimed at discussing the issues related to implementation of DSP based Digital Controller for Weapon Control System of MBT Arjun.