Building Your Virtual Vehicle with Simulink

Create Vehicle Models

You can tune pre-built reference applications to match your vehicle design. These parameterized models include powertrain and vehicle dynamics and you can apply them to vehicle energy optimization, fuel economy analysis, thermal analysis, and component sizing. You can further customize these models using components from electrical, mechanical, fluid, thermal, and multibody libraries.

For automated driving applications, you can incorporate a variety of detailed sensor models such as cameras, lidar, radar, and ultrasonic sensors.

Simulink is an open integration platform with more than 100 connection partners with dedicated integration interfaces for Simulink. You can integrate custom FMUs with built-in support for a Functional Mock-Up Interface (FMI) from Simulink.

Define Test Scenarios

Simulation using realistic parametrized scenes and driving scenarios is a crucial part of the virtual development process, especially for automated driving because it is the only practical way to achieve the required billions of miles of test driving to ensure its safety. With MATLAB, Simulink, and add-on products, you can interactively create complex 3D road networks and markings or generate an area of road networks by importing high-definition map data, then add actors and trajectories. For simulating camera, radar, and lidar sensors, you can take advantage of the sensor models that run in the Unreal^® environment co-simulating with Simulink.

For electrified powertrain development or other traditional vehicle applications, a suite of predefined driving maneuvers or standard drive cycle data is available to help you quickly evaluate your vehicle’s performance. You can easily modify them or synthesize custom drive cycles based on recorded fleet test data in MATLAB.

Deploy Simulation

You can extend the benefits of simulation to broader teams who are not necessarily modeling experts. With App Designer, you can create customized apps and package them for distribution as a MATLAB app, standalone desktop app, or web app.

To integrate your virtual vehicle simulation with real-world vehicle fleet test data, you also have the option of deploying it to the cloud where large-scale data is often stored.

To validate hardware/software integration, you can deploy your full vehicle model for hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing using code generating products from MathWorks.