Unified modelling and real-time simulation of an electric vehicle
by Henning S. Vogt, Chad C. Schmitke, Kiumars Jalali, John J. McPhee
International Journal of Vehicle Autonomous Systems (IJVAS), Vol. 6, No. 3/4, 2008

Abstract: This paper describes the unified modelling of a mechatronic system by a single, graph-theoretic representation, with specific application to an electric vehicle with in-wheel motors. Using linear graph theory and symbolic computing, we present a systematic approach to formulating and simplifying the governing equations. An optimised computational sequence is generated in Maple/DynaFlexPro and exported to Matlab/Simulink to perform real-time dynamics simulations. Although applied to a vehicle model, the general methodology presented here is applicable to a wide range of mechatronic systems.

Online publication date: Mon, 02-Mar-2009

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