Engine Control

LMS Imagine.Lab Engine Control is an integrated solution to design robust engine controls. From design to validation, it provides a toolset to manage the growing complexity of engine control strategies and drive assistance technologies directly linked to the engine. The solution is based on strong modeling competence and a thorough understanding of the system physics.

LMS Imagine.Lab Engine Control is a complete and integrated solution to design and set up robust engine controls. From design to validation, it provides a relevant toolset to manage the growing complexity of engine control strategies and drive assistance technologies directly linked to the engine (speed regulation, gearbox). LMS Imagine.Lab Engine Control goes further than the classical “automatic” control approach, and provides a unique methodology for control design. The solution is mainly based on a strong modeling competence and a thorough understanding of the system physics.

OEMs and suppliers, engine manufacturers, engine control designers and testers (HIL test-benches) will be able to use state-of-the-art engine models, suitable for every stage from design to validation, as well as in real time. By using LMS Imagine.Lab AMESim throughout the development process, project engineers can implement and capitalize on their own modeling know-how, and share models to gain time and efficiency. Model accuracy and real–time analysis are no longer incompatible.

LMS Imagine.Lab Engine Control comes with a set of cutting-edge components:

The LMS Imagine.Lab AMESim core platform
Control-specific interfaces (Simulink and Real-Time)
Links with market reference software : Simulink (Mathworks), Morphee2 (D2T), LabView RT (NI)
Standard and specific libraries and components/models
Analysis tools and methodologies for model reduction

For more specific usage, detailed models of engine subsystems are available (injection, air loop, driveline, thermal, electrical actuators and motors) as well as analysis tools to study the combustion process in real time.

Implementing LMS Imagine.Lab Engine Control helps engineers reduce time to market (gain in efficiency) and design/validation costs (mainly reduce testing needs) while improving quality and robustness (better physical understanding, increase validation capacity). It offers unrivalled model-based, multi-domain system simulation within a single simulation platform, both in the design and validation process (Hardware-in-the-Loop and Software-in-the-Loop).

LMS Imagine.Lab Engine Control has been developed in close collaboration with IFP, ensuring delivery of cutting-edge, innovative and robust solutions.

Features

Engine models running offline/online (real time)
A chain of models with associated methodology, suitable for every stage of the design process
Non-linear engine models based on physics (including phenomenological combustion models)
Several model levels available for most components (to find the best compromise between detailed description and CPU time)
Engine model can be linked to other AMESim model libraries (cooling system, transmission) to obtain a comprehensive model
Compatibility with major hardware manufacturers for real-time simulation (Mathworks, NI, D2T…)

Benefits

Process more virtual adjustments and tuning
Improve test quality and perform in-depth control validation thanks to more accurate and faster models
Develop more sophisticated and easy to calibrate control strategies
Take advantage of a single environment for engine and control design/validation
Gain in efficiency with easy-to-share models
Quickly adapt to new projects with easy-to-modify models
Reduce need for testing on account of real-time combustion models based on geometrical parameters , improved test specification and better insight
Comprehensive engine actuators modeling

Covering a range of industries, LMS application cases let you discover how LMS solutions help our customers solve their real-life engineering challenges.

diesel engines modeling design software 3.gif Delphi cuts next-generation diesel engines ECU development time with LMS Imagine.Lab AMESim

Working together with LMS Imagine.Lab engineering services, Delphi engineers use LMS Imagine.Lab AMESim multi-domain system modeling software to efficiently develop advanced HiL simulators to design and test electronic control units for tomorrow’s fuel-efficient, clean-running diesel engines.

Messier-Bugatti optimized the A380 nosewheel steering and braking system with LMS Imagine.Lab AMESim

To save weight on the A380 superjumbo aircraft, Messier-Bugatti used LMS Imagine.Lab AMESim and the Ground Loads solution to design an innovative decentralized hydraulic generation system with lightweight micro-pumps delivering power locally to emergency braking and landing gear steering systems.

Renault applies AMESim to streamline its cooling and air-conditioning systems development process

To comply with the multiple constraints relative to vehicle designs that affect the thermal management of underhood systems, and to ensure high-quality passenger comfort, Renault decided to rely more on simulation to engineer the underhood thermal environment. The French car maker deployed the AMESim solution as a collaborative system simulation platform.

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	The co-simulation between LMS Imagine.Lab AMESim and Simulink is used to design engine control strategies with the help of an engine-to-pilot model.		A complete vehicle model including a mean value engine model as the core of an engine HiL test bench.		A methodology has been set up to simplify high fidelity models into a mean value engine model, using the DOE tool embedded within LMS Imagine.Lab AMESim.

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