Maplesoft and VI-grade Team on Vehicle Design.

By DE Editors

Maplesoft unveiled a new product that integrates its MapleSim physical modeling tool with vehicle dynamics tools from VI-grade. The MapleSim Connector for VI-CarRealTime allows engineers to incorporate high-fidelity, multi-domain models created in MapleSim into the real-time vehicle simulation environment of VI-CarRealTime.

MapleSim is a Modelica-based physical modeling and simulation tool that applies modern techniques to reduce model development and analysis time while producing high-fidelity simulations. VI-CarRealTime provides a fully validated, real-time vehicle simulation environment that automotive engineers can use to optimize vehicle designs and control system performance. By using VI-CarRealTime, Vehicle Dynamics engineers can also perform large Design of Experiments (DOE) and multi-objective optimization studies quickly and easily.

 "VI-grade customers can now leverage the physical modeling environment of MapleSim to create high-fidelity models of vehicle subsystems, in a fraction of the time it would take them in other tools," said Juergen Fett, managing director, VI-grade. "Then, they get automatically generated real-time code of the subsystem that they can incorporate into VI-CarRealTime's full vehicle model, replacing the default subsystem with their own.  Not only does this avoid time-consuming and error-prone hand-coding, but MapleSim lets them create extremely detailed models while maintaining real-time simulation speeds. As a result, the simulations results are closer to reality, which ultimately leads to shorter development cycles and better products."

For more information, visit Maplesoft and VI-grade.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.