What Is Vehicle Dynamics Blockset?
Vehicle Dynamics Blockset™ provides preassembled automotive vehicle dynamics reference applications for passenger cars, trucks, and two-wheelers. The blockset includes a component library for propulsion, steering, suspension, vehicle body, brakes, tires, and driver models, as well as component and supervisory controllers. You can use the built-in interface with Unreal Engine® to visualize simulations and communicate scene information back to your model.
Vehicle Dynamics Blockset offers the Virtual Vehicle Composer app for configuring and parameterizing models, as well as prebuilt workflows for Kinematics and Compliance (K&C) testing and calibrating models from test data. You can use these models for ride and handling analyses, chassis controls development, software integration testing, and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing. The models are open, so you can incorporate your own subsystems and customize them as needed.
Published: 11 May 2023
Vehicle Dynamics Blockset provides a library of automotive component and system models to analyze ride and handling, develop chassis control features, and perform ADAS and automated driving tests, model a variety of vehicles, including passenger cars, motorcycles, and commercial trucks. With the Virtual Vehicle Composer app, you can interactively configure a vehicle model for vehicle dynamics analyses.
Choose from a variety of powertrain architectures using Powertrain Blockset, then introduce lateral dynamics effects. Parameterize the model within the app or import your own component data. Then assemble a test plan using predefined driving scenarios. Finally, build a virtual vehicle to perform simulation.
Vehicle Dynamics Blockset incorporates a 3D environment using the Unreal Engine, allowing you to visualize the vehicle's dynamic response to driving maneuvers. Use one of the prebuilt scenes or customize a scene to develop your own virtual test ground.
To characterize the vehicle's ride and handling performance, use vehicle models to simulate standard driving maneuvers, such as a double lane change. You can also design custom maneuvers or drive the vehicle manually. With the Kinematics and Compliance Virtual Test Lab, you can analyze the response of your suspension from test data or a detailed Simscape Multibody model that automatically generate a table-based equivalent for fast-running, vehicle-level simulation.
The vehicle models are open, customizable, and provide a closed-loop testing framework in which you can incorporate your own chassis controls features, for example, perform a split-view braking test with different braking algorithms and visually compare the results. To test ADAS features, such as automatic emergency braking, with realistic vehicle dynamics, close the loop between your vehicle model and the 3D environment using camera, ground feedback, and more advanced sensor models.
The same models can be used throughout the development process from controls development to software integration testing and hardware in the loop testing. For more information on Vehicle Dynamics Blockset, please visit our website or select one of the options below.