What Is Powertrain Blockset? - MATLAB & Simulink
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    What Is Powertrain Blockset?

    Powertrain Blockset™ provides preassembled automotive vehicle reference applications for gasoline, diesel, hybrid, fuel cell, and battery electric propulsion systems. The blockset includes a component library for engines, traction motors, batteries, transmissions, tires, and driver models, as well as component and supervisory controllers.

    Powertrain Blockset offers the Virtual Vehicle Composer app for configuring and parameterizing models, as well as prebuilt workflows for resizing components, calibrating models from data, optimizing shift schedules, and generating deep learning dynamic plant and state estimators. You can use these models for design tradeoff analysis and component sizing, control parameter optimization, 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

    Powertrain Blockset provides a library of automotive components, complete vehicle models, and calibration workflows to analyze system efficiency, energy loss, and greenhouse gas emission reduction. With the Virtual Vehicle Composer app, you can quickly configure a vehicle model and perform analysis. First, select the type of vehicle and the desired powertrain architecture. Vehicle models come equipped with powertrain controllers, including battery management systems.

    Parameterize the model within the app or import your own component data. Then assemble a test plan using standard or custom drive cycle data. Finally, run the test plan and review the results. Use predefined workflows to resize engines and motors based on high level design parameters, such as maximum power. Plant model parameters are automatically tuned. And controllers are automatically recalibrated based on the new specifications.

    These workflows can save you significant time by generating initial plant models and controller calibrations from minimal data requirements. The Powertrain Component Library includes the components essential for modeling automotive systems. Use these components to modify the contents of a subsystem to meet your project needs or replace entire subsystems with your own models. For example, add a battery cooling system to your electric vehicle using Simscape products.

    You can also incorporate third party functionality into your Simulink vehicle model using a variety of co simulation interfaces or as a reduced order model. Vehicle models allow you to perform closed loop testing at the system level, including system architecture studies and powertrain efficiency analysis.

    You can perform fast desktop simulation or leverage cloud-based workflows, using MATLAB Parallel Server, then easily transitioned to real-time hill testing using Simulink Real-Time with Speedgoat Target Hardware or with other hill platforms. For more information on Powertrain Blockset, please visit our website or select one of the options below.

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