Powertrain Simulation, Controls and Testing

Accelerate development and testing of powertrain controls for battery electric, hybrid, conventional and fuel-cell vehicles

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Energy efficiency and sustainability needs and expectations are dramatically impacting the design and testing of powertrain components including:

battery packs, fuel tanks and fuel cells
electric and combustion motors
automatic transmissions
onboard chargers
power electronics such as DC-AC and DC-DC converters

Real-time simulation of novel control and supervisory concepts and automated testing using digital twins accelerates the development of complex designs and assures that functional, safety and certification requirements are met:

Rapidly prototype and test new controls and supervisory strategies designed with Simulink on Speedgoat target computers, without being constrained by old controller hardware
Leverage Speedgoat target computers for calibration and bypassing applications
Real-time execute digital twins of physical hardware for automated testing of controllers using Hardware-in-the-Loop simulation

“Speedgoat systems offer state of the art performance with application-level support included, enabling detailed modeling of the tractor environment for ECU testing and development."

Jürgen Weinbuch, AGCO Fendt


Passenger Vehicles	Trucks	Off-Highway Vehicles	Racecars

Featured Application Use Cases

Electric Motors and Drives

Iterate and validate high-fidelity control strategies for electric motors and drives using techniques like field-oriented control (FOC), direct torque control (DTC) or model predictive control (MPC).

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Automatic Transmissions

Iterate and validate shifting strategies for your transmission control unit (TCU) to optimize fuel-consumption and driver comfort. Receive input from the various required sensors. Get feedback from the traction control system (TCS) in-case unfavorable road-conditions are detected. Request torque reduction from the engine controller during shifting. Share information regarding the health of the transmission to raise trouble codes.

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Modeling an Automatic Transmission Controller – Reference Application

Hybrid Vehicle Controls

Design and test supervisory strategies for hybrid powertrains. Communicate with powertrain controllers (e.g. for the engine, electric drive, battery management system, transmission, and recuperative braking system) to control the switching between the engine and electric drive, energy recuperation and more.

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Battery Management Systems (BMS)

Design and test supervisory controls for battery packs that monitors cell voltages and temperatures, estimates state-of-charge (SoC) and state-of-health (SoH), limits power in- and output and control, controls the cooling, changes charging profiles and balances the SoC of individual cells.

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Internal Combustion Engines

Develop strategies for new or existing controllers to reduce emissions and fuel consumption. Design and test ignition or injection strategies requiring fast closed-loop controls.

Frequently Used I/O Interfaces

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Internal Combustion Engine - Reference Applications

Configuration Proposal

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Real-Time Simulation and Testing

See how it works, learn more about Rapid Control Prototyping and Hardware-in-the-Loop simulation,
to design control designs and test controller hardware.