Physics-based Plant Modeling for Automotive Control Design

Over the past 15 years, the automotive industry has succeeded in addressing the need for fast and effective design, simulation, and development of control systems through “off-the-shelf” software tools.  Companies such as Toyota have led the adoption of such tools and the concept of Model-Based Design.  However, today, automotive industry leaders recognize the need for a new set of software tools and methods to address the parallel problem of physical modeling (or “plant” modeling).
 
In this one-hour web seminar, Dr Ken Butts of the Toyota Technical Center, USA will present some of the physical modeling challenges facing the company and its vision for the future development of Rapid Plant Modeling methodologies based on symbolic computation.
 
There will also be an introduction to the new Physical Modeling Consortium, a forum in which organizations can share ideas and advance the development of these methodologies, and the tools needed to facilitate them.