Simscape Driveline

Model and simulate rotational and translational mechanical systems

Simscape Driveline™ (formerly SimDriveline™) provides component libraries for modeling and simulating rotational and translational mechanical systems. It includes models of worm gears, lead screws, and vehicle components such as engines, tires, transmissions, and torque converters. You can use these components to model the transmission of mechanical power in helicopter drivetrains, industrial machinery, automotive powertrains, and other applications. You can integrate electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and other physical systems into your model using components from the Simscape™ family of products.

Simscape Driveline helps you develop control systems and test system-level performance. You can create custom component models with the MATLAB^® based Simscape language, which enables text-based authoring of physical modeling components, domains, and libraries. You can parameterize your models using MATLAB variables and expressions, and design control systems for your physical system in Simulink^®. To deploy your models to other simulation environments, including hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) systems, Simscape Driveline supports C-code generation.

What Is Simscape Driveline?

Model of a vehicle with a power-split hybrid transmission.

Vehicle Powertrain

Model hybrid, pure electric, and conventional powertrains for passenger, off-road, and custom vehicles. Evaluate vehicle-level performance with losses and thermal effects.

FMTC Designs and Optimizes a Hybrid Hydrostatic Drivetrain with Model-Based Design

Model of a dual-clutch transmission where gear pre-selection is done via dog clutches.

Vehicle Transmissions

Use templates or assemble custom designs to assess system performance and develop control systems. Switch between detailed and abstract variants to accelerate testing.

Delphi Cuts Transmission Modeling Time by 50%

A stepping mechanism constructed from a self-locking leadscrew and a unidirectional clutch.

Industrial Machinery

Create models tailored to your design to determine loads and design control systems. Perform dynamic and static tests to map system-level requirements to components.

Ellio Develops Two-Wheel Drive E-Bike with Simulink and Model-Based Design

Model of a transmission with a Ravigneaux gearset and a planetary gearset controlled by six friction clutches.

Fault Tolerance

Minimize losses, equipment downtime, and costs by testing designs with degraded component behavior, such as worn gear teeth or increased friction.

Lockheed Martin Simulates Orion Spacecraft Missions Using a Multidomain Power System Model

Model of a sheet metal feeder with two slitted rolls driven via a spur gear train, worm gear, and a chain drive.

Virtual Testing

Verify system behavior under conditions that cannot be easily tested with hardware prototypes. Run sets of tests in parallel on a multicore workstation or a cluster.

Vintecc Develops PLC System for Multi-Axle Harvesting Machine Using Model-Based Design

Model of a winch driven by a geared shaft and controlled with a double-shoe brake.

Model Deployment

Convert your Simscape model to C code to test control algorithms using HIL tests on dSPACE^®, Speedgoat, OPAL-RT, and other real-time systems.

Volvo Construction Equipment Streamlines Product Development with a Real-Time, Human-in-the-Loop Simulator

Model of a liquid-cooled permanent magnet synchronous motor in an electric vehicle.

Simscape Platform

Test integration of electrical, thermal, mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems in a single environment. Identify integration issues and optimize system-level performance.

Virgin Orbit Simulates LauncherOne Stage Separation Events

Model of a vehicle with a four-speed transmission and a controller implemented as a state machine.

MATLAB and Simulink

Use MATLAB to automate tasks such as model assembly, testing, and post-processing. Use Simulink to integrate control algorithms and hardware design in a single environment.

ABB, Deltamarin, and VTT Simulate and Optimize Ship Energy Flows

Digital twin of a pump used to detect faults in actual system.

From Research To Production

Use Simscape models to help refine requirements, design control systems, test embedded controllers, and support in-service operation as a digital twin.

Developing PLC-Based Controls for Suction Dredgers with Model-Based Design

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“With Simulink and Simscape Driveline we reduced the time required to build a mechanical model of a transmission by six weeks, and we're positioned to build the next one even faster. As a result, we are better able to support several different customers because we can get into their world much quicker.”
Andrew Herman, Delphi Powertrain Systems

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