Powertrain Modeling in Heavy-Duty Vehicles

The main focus of this project, carried out in joint cooperation with heavy-duty vehicles producers Liebherr-Werk Telfs and Prinoth, is the development of a digital multiphysics representation of drive trains including subcomponents and other auxiliary components.  

The realized simulation tool is employed in different areas of the product development. An accurate representation of the product performance makes it a trustworthy source of information during its design stages and allows the monitoring and control of its behavior for user-given environmental situations. Thus, it becomes a reliable test platform to observe the behavior of the different parts the product is composed of, and the product as a whole, without the need for long and costly field experiments—as well as allowing the user to address the product suitability for determined situations. Furthermore, the software tool is not solely designed for a specific product or group of components, but as a generic tool in which different parts can be introduced (different from the original product) replacing the existing elements (electrification). In addition, different control strategies for machine management can be implemented and tested.

Learn how MATLAB^®, Simulink^®, and Simscape^® can be used to represent complex multiphysics systems in heavy-duty machines with a great degree of customization and accuracy. In addition, capabilities integrated with MATLAB also help to generate co-simulation environments with other software tools in order to model the ground interaction.

Intended targets of the tools:-    Initial design and prototyping-    Test and optimization-    Vehicle control strategies-    Product/components performance assessment