SimDriveline 1.5.3

Multidomain Physical Modeling in Simulink

SimDriveline provides expanded capabilities for simulating physical systems in Simulink.

Standard Simulink blocks define a transfer function between input and output signal flows. For applications such as control systems design and signal processing, this approach is natural, practical, and functional.

Modeling interactions among components in mechanical systems requires a broader paradigm. For example, unidirectional signal flow is inadequate for modeling mechanical bodies that are exerting forces on each other.

With SimDriveline, you can create a control system as a standard unidirectional signal flow block diagram and then connect this model to a physical plant, modeled using a mixture of traditional Simulink blocks and the specialized physical modeling blocks in SimDriveline.