Vehicle Modeling Using Powertrain Blockset

Ed Marquez and Christoph Hahn highlight the benefits of using Powertrain Blockset™. Some of these benefits include the ability to use well-documented, open, and reconfigurable blocks to represent powertrain components. In addition, Powertrain Blockset allows for highly detailed parametrization of components based on user data and supports code generation from models.

Three demo models are shown using Powertrain Blockset: a vehicle dynamics (glider) representation, a battery electric vehicle, and a combustion engine vehicle. The input to the models is a publicly available certification drive cycle (US06), and users can choose the information they wish to obtain from the model. Throughout the demos, Ed and Christoph verify that the speed output of the vehicle model matches the speed input from the drive cycle without any major trace misses.

The main takeaways from this video are that Powertrain Blockset:

Is built on Simulink®, and the former provides an extension to the capabilities of the latter
Implements an approach driven by available component test data
Offers many options for each one of the components
Is supported for code generation
Find the models used in this episode on MATLAB Central File Exchange: https://goo.gl/XMGPdJ