MapleSim is a
Modelica
Modelica is an object-oriented, declarative, multi-domain modeling language for component-oriented modeling of complex systems, e.g., systems containing mechanical, electrical, electronic, hydraulic, thermal, control, electric power or process ...
-based, multi-domain
modeling
A model is an informative representation of an object, person, or system. The term originally denoted the Plan_(drawing), plans of a building in late 16th-century English, and derived via French language, French and Italian language, Italian ult ...
and
simulation
A simulation is an imitative representation of a process or system that could exist in the real world. In this broad sense, simulation can often be used interchangeably with model. Sometimes a clear distinction between the two terms is made, in ...
tool developed by
Maplesoft. MapleSim generates model equations, runs simulations, and performs analyses using the symbolic and numeric mathematical engine of
Maple
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. Models are created by
dragging-and-dropping components from a library into a central workspace, resulting in a model that represents the physical system in a graphical form.
Maplesoft began development of MapleSim partly in response to a request from
Toyota
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to produce physical modeling tools to aid in their new model-based development process.
The MapleSim library includes many components that can be connected together to model a system. These components are from areas of science and engineering such as
electrical
Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter possessing an electric charge. Electricity is related to magnetism, both being part of the phenomenon of electromagnetism, as described by Maxwel ...
,
mechanical
Mechanical may refer to:
Machine
* Machine (mechanical), a system of mechanisms that shape the actuator input to achieve a specific application of output forces and movement
* Mechanical calculator, a device used to perform the basic operations o ...
, and
thermal
A thermal column (or thermal) is a rising mass of buoyant air, a convective current in the atmosphere, that transfers heat energy vertically. Thermals are created by the uneven heating of Earth's surface from solar radiation, and are an example ...
engineering fields. MapleSim also includes traditional signal flow components that can be combined with other physical components in the workspace. Thus, MapleSim is able to combine
causal
Causality is an influence by which one Event (philosophy), event, process, state, or Object (philosophy), object (''a'' ''cause'') contributes to the production of another event, process, state, or object (an ''effect'') where the cause is at l ...
modeling methods with
acausal techniques that do not require specification of signal flow direction between all components.
The use of Maple underneath MapleSim allows all of the system equations to be generated and simplified automatically. The user can explore their system in various ways, such as viewing the equations behind their model and performing parameter optimization. The use of the Maple mathematics engine also allows for MapleSim to incorporate such features as units management and solving of high-order
DAEs that are typically encountered in complex acausal models.
Mechatronics: Next generation tool for modeling and simulation
Control Engineering, July 28, 2008
Release history
Add-on libraries & tools
* ''MapleSim Connector''
** ANSI C base Simulink
Simulink is a MATLAB-based graphical programming environment for modeling, simulating and analyzing multidomain dynamical systems. Its primary interface is a graphical block diagramming tool and a customizable set of block libraries. It offe ...
S-function code generation
* ''MapleSim Connector for FMI''
** FMU generation based on FMI Standard
*''B&R MapleSim Connector''
**Integration tool for B&R Automation Studio and MapleSim models
*''MapleSim Connector for LabVIEW and NI Veristand''
** Code generation for NI LabVIEW Software
* ''MapleSim Connector for JMAG-RT''
** Import JMAG-RT file into MapleSim model
* ''MapleSim CAD Toolbox''
** Import various CAD models into MapleSim then automatically recreating the model components in MapleSim
* ''MapleSim Tire Library''
** Industry standard tire component library which includes Fiala, Calspan and Pacejka 2002 types.
* ''MapleSim Driveline Library''
** Component library for powertrain modeling in automotive engineering such as differential, wheels and road loads.
* ''MapleSim Battery Library''
** Supports electrochemical and equivalent-circuit models for battery system modeling
* ''MapleSim Hydraulics Library from Modelon''
** Third-party version for Hydraulics component models
* ''MapleSim Pneumatics Library from Modelon''
** Third-party version for Pneumatics component models
*''MapleSim Engine Dynamics Library from Modelon''
**Third-party version of Engine Dynamics Library which can be used for modeling and simulation for combustion engine in automotive applications.
*''MapleSim Heat Transfer Library from CYBERNET''
** System-level simulation for Heat Transfer effects in MapleSim model based on automatically generated discretization approach.
* ''MapleSim Control Design Toolbox''
** Provides a set of commands for controller design such as PID working with plant models designed by MapleSim. These commands are used in Maple
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.
* ''MapleSim Explorer''
** Viewer version of MapleSim that can run simulation of MapleSim models.
* ''MapleSim Server''
** Web deployment option that can serve MapleSim models on web browser or tablets.
See also
* AMESim
Simcenter Amesim is a commercial simulation software for the modeling and analysis of multi-domain systems. It is part of systems engineering domain and falls into the mechatronic engineering field.
The software package is a suite of tools used t ...
* APMonitor
* Computer simulation
Computer simulation is the running of a mathematical model on a computer, the model being designed to represent the behaviour of, or the outcome of, a real-world or physical system. The reliability of some mathematical models can be determin ...
* Control engineering
Control engineering, also known as control systems engineering and, in some European countries, automation engineering, is an engineering discipline that deals with control systems, applying control theory to design equipment and systems with d ...
* Dymola
Dymola is a commercial modeling and simulation environment based on the open Modelica modeling language.
Large and complex systems are composed of component models; mathematical equations describe the dynamic behavior of the system.
Developed ...
* EcosimPro
EcosimPro is a simulation tool developed by Empresarios Agrupados A.I.E for modelling simple and complex physical processes that can be expressed in terms of Differential algebraic equations or Ordinary differential equations and Discrete even ...
* EMSO simulator
EMSO simulator is an equation-oriented process simulator with a graphical interface for modeling complex dynamic or steady-state processes. It is CAPE-OPEN compliant. EMSO stands for Environment for Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization. The A ...
* Hardware-in-the-loop simulation
Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation, also known by various acronyms such as HiL, HITL, and HWIL, is a technique that is used in the development and testing of complex real-time embedded systems. HIL simulation provides an effective testing platf ...
* Maple (software)
Maple is a symbolic and numeric computing environment as well as a multi-paradigm programming language. It covers several areas of technical computing, such as symbolic mathematics, numerical analysis, data processing, visualization, and other ...
* Mechatronics
Mechatronics engineering, also called mechatronics, is the synergistic integration of mechanical, electrical, and computer systems employing mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, electronic engineering and computer engineering, and also ...
* Model-based design
Model-based design (MBD) is a mathematical and visual method of addressing problems associated with designing complex control, signal processing and communication systems. It is used in many motion control, industrial equipment, aerospace, and a ...
* Modelica
Modelica is an object-oriented, declarative, multi-domain modeling language for component-oriented modeling of complex systems, e.g., systems containing mechanical, electrical, electronic, hydraulic, thermal, control, electric power or process ...
* SimulationX
SimulationX is a CAE software application running on Microsoft Windows for the physical simulation of technical systems. It is developed and sold by ESI Group.
History
In the mid 1980s, VEB Mikromat in Dresden (Germany) developed a program ...
* Vehicle dynamics
Vehicle dynamics is the study of vehicle motion, e.g., how a vehicle's forward movement changes in response to driver inputs, propulsion system outputs, ambient conditions, air/surface/water conditions, etc.
Vehicle dynamics is a part of engineer ...
* Wolfram SystemModeler
References
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