Get Started with the Extended Tire Features for Vehicle Dynamics Blockset

The Extended Tire Features for Vehicle Dynamics Blockset™ provides a set of tools to work with tire data and integrate tire models into vehicle simulations. Tire data describes the operating conditions of a tire, and tire models describe tire behavior with mathematical models. Calculating the tire responses requires both tire models and tire data.

Using the tireData and tireModel functions and methods, you can:

• Import and preprocess tire data.

• Create tire models from the supported tire model types:

  • Magic Formula 6.2 — Choose the Magic Formula 6.2 tire model when you need a high level of accuracy for high-fidelity vehicle dynamic simulations.

  • Dugoff — Choose the Dugoff tire model when you need to represent combined slip conditions, but you want a simpler tire model that is easier to fit with fewer parameters.

  • Fiala — Choose the Fiala tire model when you need a simple tire model with few parameters that is easy to fit.

• Perform computations on tire data using tire model parameter sets to calculate tire responses.

• Fit tire models to specified tire responses.

• Export tire model parameter values to Vehicle Dynamics Blockset wheel blocks for simulations.

These tools provide a complete workflow to fit and simulate tire models.

Support Package Installation and Examples

Follow these steps for instructions to install the support package to become familiar with the data available, and for examples demonstrating the support package capabilities.

Step		Goal
1	Install Support Package	Installing the Extended Tire Features for Vehicle Dynamics Blockset support package enables access to tools for data preprocessing, visualization and calculation of tire responses, and fitting tire models.
2	Example Tire Data	Get familiar with the example data used to display the capabilities of the Extended Tire Features for Vehicle Dynamics support package.
3	Import and View Tire Data	Import data from a Tyre Data Exchange Format (TYDEX) v1.3 file to a tireData object.
4	Plot Tire Data for Visual Inspection	Use the plot function to visualize data within a tireData object.
5	Plot Tire Model Response for Visual Inspection	Use the plot function to visualize the response of a tireModel object.
6	Plot Tire Model Response with Imported Tire Data for Visual Inspection	Use the plot function to visualize the response of a tireModel object using imported tire data.
7	Fit a Tire Model to Tire Data and Export Parameter Set	Use the fit function to fit a tireModel object to imported tire data.