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The MathWorks today announced the availability of Simscape™, which further extends the company’s Simulink® platform by enabling engineers to model and simulate multidomain physical systems . Employing a physical network approach to model building, Simscape allows engineers to describe the physical structure of a system rather than the underlying mathematics. From the model, Simscape automatically constructs equations that characterize the behavior of the system and then integrates them with the rest of the Simulink model.

“Simscape provides control design engineers across automotive, aerospace, defense, and industrial equipment industries the ability to view how different physical components work together in a single system,” said Paul Barnard, marketing director for design automation at The MathWorks.

Simscape provides libraries containing fundamental elements from electrical, hydraulic, and mechanical domains that can be combined together in a single environment to create more sophisticated components.

In addition, Simscape lets engineers convert models into C code using Real-Time Workshop® so that they can run models in real time and perform hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing. Complete integration with Simulink and automatic code generation tools provides an uninterrupted development process within the control design workflow. 

Finally, Simscape is a foundation for add-on modeling domains available from The MathWorks : SymHydraulics®, SimMechanics^TM and SimDriveline^TM provide extensive pre-built capabilities for mechanical and hydraulic modeling.

“Engineers can now use Simulink to simulate multidomain physical systems together with the control system,” Barnard said.   “On the desktop and during HIL testing, they can explore design options and uncover system problems early in the development process: this saves time and reduces costs.”