Simscape enables engineers to optimize the design of heavy equipment, including excavators, wheel loaders, tractors, and other machines for construction or agricultural tasks. You can tailor Simscape models to your exact design and explore the entire design space. Use the examples linked from this page to refine design requirements, design control algorithms, and test controller software without relying on hardware prototypes. MATLAB apps help you configure models to test for compliance with government regulations.
Heavy Equipment Design with Simscape
Top 10 Use Cases
- Refine linkage pin locations based on breakout force and load charts.
- Assess exact working envelope by importing designs from CAD and FEM software
- Integrate electric and hydraulic designs with models of mechanical linkages.
- Explore the entire design space by running simulations in parallel.
- Size powertrain components for both propulsion and power takeoff requirements.
- Increase efficiency by simultaneously tuning design parameters in any system.
- Investigate dangerous conditions in virtual tests including faulty components
- Design and test control logic against all safety requirements.
- Validate automated driving algorithms in virtual environments.
- Test your embedded software against a virtual system using hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation.
Powertrain Components
Test electric and diesel designs with continuously variable transmissions and power takeoffs.
Traction Systems
Model tracked and wheeled vehicles with a fixed or articulated chassis.
Structural Design
Estimate pin loads, maximum reach, breakout force, and tearout force.
Hydraulic Systems
Integrate pumps, actuators, and custom valves into your model.
Control Logic
Ensure your system always fulfills regulations, from early designs to HIL tests.
