Advanced Model-Based System Design

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Objectives

• Build mathematical models for components in a system.
• Follow a process of continuous refinement and improvement to generate accurate models.
• Manage the development of large system models
• Connect component models together to model a larger more complex system.
• Setup and run Model-in-the-Loop Simulations (MIL).
• Setup and run Software-in-the-Loop Simulations (SIL).
• Setup and run real-time simulations for a physical system.
• Setup and run Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulations (HIL).
• Develop a controller for a large complex system.
• Deploy a control algorithm on a real-time target.
• Apply verification and validation methods to a model of a physical systems.

Original Course Documents

Course Contents

• Modeling a series hybrid-electric vehicle
• Introduction to Simulink and SimDriveline
• Models for the Driver, Battery, and Electric Motors.
• Creating and Running Drive Cycles
• Models for Engines.
• Developing the hybrid-electric vehicle controller.
• Measuring and predicting vehicle performance.
• Real-Time Simulations
• Stand-Alone Simulations
• Verify logical operation
• Give user feel of controls and vehicle operation
• Plant and controller on same target
• Introduction to CAN
• Message IDs
• Scaling and Offset
• Big Endian and Little Endian
• CAN Message Database
• Cabling,isolation, and termination
• Introduction to MotoHawk and MotoTune tools.
• HIL Simulations (Real-Time)
• Separate the Plant from the Controller.
• Controller on real-time target.
• Plant on real-time target.
• V&V Using HIL RT Model
• Setup a standard set of tests for the series controller.
• Run standard set of tests, record and report results, indicate faults.
• Verify communications interfaces and A/D inputs and outputs.
• Verify that controller can execute control algorithm in specified time step.
• Verify Communication data rates.

Problem Sets

Resources

• Models, Drive Cycle Files, and Component Information
• Download the MathWorks Automotive Advisory Board Style Guide

MotoHawk 80-PIN Target Documentation

• ECU555-80 Datasheet
• ECU555-80 Data Sheet R-13
• 80-Pin Development Harness Documentation

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