Accelerating Vehicle Development with Virtual Vehicles

The recent trend of vehicle manufacturers bringing feature development in-house to enable differentiating innovations at a managed level of risk has escalated the need for trusted and useful system-level simulations. These “virtual vehicle” models can enable early discovery and solution of technical risks—i.e. to “fail fast” and innovate quickly in simulation, with expensive vehicle testing used selectively to validate findings. They can, though, present challenges in trusting their results, managing their complexity, and efficiently gleaning insight from them.

Discover the challenges and approaches in virtual vehicle–enabled development and how to use MATLAB^® and Simulink^® to enable and accelerate this process—from component design and development, through integration of components to system- level simulations, toward scaling up these simulations beyond the desktop.