With traditional tools, even a simple system is difficult to model. First, you need to manually derive the equations of motion, and then manipulate them into a form that can be entered into a block diagram representation.
With the cutting-edge physical modeling techniques in MapleSim, you simply re-create the system diagram on a screen and the equations of the model are automatically generated. A model maps directly to each physical component, showing how those components are connected together, and the equations of motion are generated. This approach can save anywhere from hours to months on complex applications.
Toyota, who has recently entered into a joint project with Maplesoft™, has been one of the earliest among industrial companies to embrace this approach to physical modeling: the concept of creating a computer-based model of a system to analyze, test, improve, and optimize the design before actually building the physical system.
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Modeling a double mass spring-damper system - The MapleSim model maps directly to the physical components of the model, whereas the traditional block diagram is much more complex, harder to produce, and looks nothing like the original system representation. |
