Automotive System Simulation
Automotive and Vehicle System Engineering Simulation Software
Modelon’s platform product, Modelon Impact enables leading automotive companies to model, simulate and optimize almost any vehicle system. Our platform offers automotive system simulation capabilities coupled with our comprehensive suite of validated multi-physics industry-leading libraries.
Leading automotive companies worldwide rely on Modelon products and expertise for a wide range of applications, from performance improvements of Formula 1 cars to reducing fuel consumption for heavy vehicles. Modelon is well-represented in the following industry segments:
- Car and light trucks
- Race cars
- Motorcycles
- Automotive industry suppliers
- Trucks and buses
- Other transportation, such as trains
Integrated Automotive Design
TRANSMISSION
Efficiency
Launch
Driveability
Shift Performance
Noise
Comfort
ENGINE
Air Path Management
Engine Controls
After Treatment
Comfort Vibration
Start-Stop
Downsizing
THERMAL MANAGEMENT
Cold Start and Thermal Warmup
Cooling Circuits
Air Conditioning
Powertrain Cooling
Hybrid System Cooling
Heat Exchanger Stacking
Thermal Performance Limits
ELECTRIC PROPULSION
Hybrid Powertrain
Battery Management
Motors & Power Electronics
Driveability
CHASSIS
Handling
Ride
Driveability
Active Safety
Motorsports
DRIVELINE
Driveability
Torque Control
Vibration
FUEL CELL
PEMFC Systems
Reformation
Reactor
Temperature Control
The Vehicle Dynamics Library is Available in Modelon Impact
Modelon’s Vehicle Dynamics Library is seamlessly integrated and accessible in Modelon Impact. Users are able to access Modelon’s world-class comprehensive library of predefined vehicle components, related to mechanical design and control design.
Applications
Multi-Domain Vehicle Dynamics Simulation
Battery electric and hybrid electric drives will be a prominent feature of future cars. Increasingly, subsystems such as the steering and braking system will be based on electric power supply. This leads to new challenges as well as opportunities in the field of vehicle dynamics.
Vehicle Thermal Management
Design engineers in the automotive industry often face complex, multi-domain interactions between the vehicle’s physical and control systems, especially when it comes to vehicle thermal management. Whether it’s an analysis of cabin or engine thermal management or another of those endless studies on fuel efficiency, automotive engineers can benefit from a model-based system engineering (MBSE) approach using Dymola and Modelica libraries.
Hybrid and Future Vehicles
Modelon helps companies such as Toyota use Dymola and the Vehicle Dynamics Library to develop future vehicle concepts.
Toyota’s new personal mobility concepts have significantly different properties compared to conventional vehicles, making it essential to use a model-based design approach. The required models are developed based on the Vehicle Dynamics Library to enable multi-fidelity and multi-domain representations with tight integration in the control design tool-chain. The same models are used to design and predict the behavior of the studied concepts, especially the influence of the suspension design, and to design the control systems.
Active Safety and Limit Handling
Modelon has comprehensive experience in reproducing and predicting the impact of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) on vehicle dynamic behavior using simulation and testing. Our engineers provide models, often based on the Vehicle Dynamics Library, as well as services and training to automotive OEMs around the world.
Motorsports
Aside from the driver’s skills and the team’s ability to respond to live on-track challenges, success in motorsports is defined by configuration management: Determining the best configuration to achieve maximum performance in how a vehicle behaves and responds to the driver, competitors and on-track and weather-related conditions.
Real-time and Simulators
Driver-in-the-loop (DIL) simulation is used extensively among the F1 teams and NASCAR manufacturers and is becoming more widespread among automotive OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers. Modelon’s Vehicle Dynamics Library allows vehicle models with more than 150 degrees of freedom to be deployed in driver-in-the-loop simulators. Suspensions are modeled in detail, including individual bushings and other deformable components.
Tire Modeling and Simulation with Modelica Delft – Tyre Interface
The Modelica Delft-Tyre Interface makes industry-standard tire models from TNO available for Modelica tools.
The interface works with the widely recognized and extensively validated MF-Tyre and MF-Swift models for vehicle dynamics handling and ride analysis. It is compatible with Delft-Tyre version 6.2.0.3.
Case Study
Rimac’s Journey Towards Full Vehicle System Simulation
Rimac, a Croatian automotive technology powerhouse, needed a more efficient and flexible way to evaluation multi-physics powertrain systems. In this new case study, learn how Rimac used the Modelon Electrification Library to meet their electric powertrain, battery modeling, and full vehicle system simulation needs.
Head of Control and Simulation at Rimac
Technology
“Understanding how different parameter changes affect the vehicle allows us to adapt sensors, estimators, and controllers in an efficient way to continue to improve safety.” Related News & Blog
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