SimDriveline 1.5.3

Modeling Environment for Driveline Systems

SimDriveline provides an efficient way to build driveline models in the Simulink environment. You use a block-diagram network description to represent the system. The blocks represent components, such as gears, clutches, and torque converters. The lines that connect the blocks represent rotating components, such as drive shafts.

The network description efficiently represents the driveline system. You can easily define drive shaft properties and connect the model to standard Simulink blocks. Click on image to see enlarged view.

In SimDriveline, you have access to all Simulink functionality. Using sensor blocks, you can measure values for velocity, acceleration, and torque and pass these signals into standard Simulink blocks. Actuator blocks enable Simulink signals to define values for driving torques or prescribed motion parameters for shafts.

SimDriveline provides fundamental tools for building sophisticated gear systems.

SimDriveline provides an efficient alternative to full 3-D mechanical simulators because it focuses exclusively on rotating machinery mechanics. Motion for each shaft is restricted to rotation about a single axis. As a result, you assign mass properties for each shaft through a single component of inertia. Tracking only rotational velocity for each shaft results in rapid simulation execution.