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MapleSim Demo Gallery

The MapleSim Demo Gallery contains a number of real-world application examples created using MapleSim. See for yourself the breadth and depth of MapleSim applications. All the MapleSim models in the gallery feature downloadable models to view in MapleSim.
Aerospace
Planetary Rover
In this model, planetary rover behaviour on rough terrain is simulated in an extensive multi-domain environment.
Aircraft Aerodynamics

This model simulates the aerodynamics of an aircraft, incorporating the aircraft body model, aerodynamic data, and controller design.
Quadrocopter

In this model, a quadrocopter is modeled and its flight is visualized.

 
Automotive
Battery Startup
This model simulates the startup of an internal combustion engine. The model is primarily divided into three parts: battery, alternator, and engine.
Double Wishbone Suspension
The kinematics of a double-wishbone suspension using multibody components in MapleSim.
Mean-Value Internal Combustion Engine Model: Real-Time Execution
This is a version of a MapleSim Mean-value Engine model that has been prepared for export to Simulink®, NI LabVIEW™ and NI VeriStand™ for real-time implementation.
Semi Trailing Arm
This is a model of an independent rear suspension configuration that relies on a specific mechanical topology to produce the desired kinematic response to a disturbance from the road.
Generic 4-Wheeled Vehicle with Independent Suspension
This model is a simple 4-wheeled vehicle with independent suspension at every corner.
Ackermann Steering
A geometric arrangement of linkages in the steering of a vehicle designed to solve the problem of wheels on the inside and outside turning on a different radii.
Eighteen Wheeler

In this model, the behavior of complex multi-axle vehicles is observed. Using tire models, the effects of slip angle during steering manoeuvres are examined.
Quadski Turning and Activation

A quadski actuation model, double wishbone front suspension and steering linkages for a small off-road vehicle are simulated.
Dual Clutch Transmission

An advanced dual clutch transmission is simplified using MapleSim modeling techniques.

Active Suspension Comparison

This model examines the stability control of a vehicle suspension system, and can be used to simulate road conditions, perform fatigue tests, and test suspension performance.

Cycle by Cycle Engine

This internal combustion engine model includes mechanical and thermal components, gas flow, and combustion chamber.

Simple Electric Vehicle

A physics-based NiMH battery model drives an electric vehicle model using a power control unit.

Simple Hybrid Electric Vehicle Optimization

This model demonstrates the plug-in series HEV fuel consumption optimization problem based on the backward-looking architecture.

Control Design
Flexible Joint
This is an example of the similar control problems encountered in large geared robot joints where flexibility is exhibited in the gearbox.
LQR Control Design for an Inverted Pendulum on a Cart System
An example of how an inverted pendulum sitting on top of a cart can be controlled using an LQR controller.
Model Fitting with Experimental Data
This example allows you to bring in measured data, define the approximate form of the mathematical model and then optimize to cause the model to behave in the same way as the real system.
PID Tuning
An example on how to design a PID controller for a non linear system.
Electronics
Lead-Acid Battery
A lead-acid battery powers a configurable reactive load.
Automatic Equation Generation from a Lead Compensator Circuit
This example shows the use of the Maple document environment for developing an analysis of a lead compensator circuit.
Single Pixel Touchscreen
This is an example of a touchscreen that is composed of transparent electrodes separated by the transparent screen, and the electrodes that are capacitively coupled.
Voice Coil
This model demonstrates the challenges of controlling the position of a hard-disk reading head that is mounted on a flexible positioning arm.
Wave Folder
This a model of a signal with little or no harmonic content that generates additional odd harmonics by "reflecting" the signal.
Two-way Passive Crossover
This crossover circuit model is a set of filters that directs signals of different frequency ranges to loudspeakers that have been designed to optimally handle those ranges.
Energy
Powerline Interference Demo
This model represents a power line and a data bus that are coupled by mutual inductance and coupling capacitance.
Wind Turbine
This example is a mechanical model of a wind turbine with blade angle control.
Solar Array

In this model, a solar array is modeled using both multibody and electrical components.

Hydraulics
Hydraulic Scissor Lift
This model examines the mechanics of a scissor lift.
Heating an Oil Stream Through Three Steam-Heated Tanks
This is an example of cold oil being heated by steam through a series of three tanks connected in series.
Electro-Hydraulic Clutch Actuator

This is a model of a typical clutch actuation system found in an automatic transmission.
Mechanical / Machines
Coupled Clutches
This is a model demonstrating how variable structure drive trains are handled.
Excavator
This is a basic kinematic model for an excavator.
Rollercoaster
This model is an example of a rollercoaster ride, and the effects that a passenger would undergo.
Non-linear Damper
This example shows how to create a custom component that changes the system equations to allow you to enter stiffness and damping values as a input signal to the block.
Motion Control
Tracking Radar Gimbal

In this model, the required elevation and azimuth angles are determined for a radar gimbal tracking system.

Hydraulic Stewart Platform
This is a high-fidelity six degree of freedom (x, y, z, pitch, roll, yaw) model of a Stewart platform (hexapod).
5 Degrees of Freedom Robot – Minimum Time Control

This is an extension of the 2-link robot model that includes body rotation, wrist and end effector.

3 Degrees of Freedom Helicopter with PID
The model was based on a 3 DOF helicopter from Quanser, where two DC motors are mounted at the two ends of a rectangular frame and drive two propellers.
Multibody Systems
Rotating Double Pendulum
This model shows how oscillations in pendulum swinging around point O will induce oscillations into a rectangular plate that can rotate around the axis of the pendulum.
Four-Bar Mechanism: Active Forces and Torques
This is a model where three bars are attached by revolute joints, while the fourth is attached to ground.
Dynamic Response of a Planar Seven-Body Mechanism
This model shows part of a sheet-feeder for a high-speed printer. Called a "squeezer", it is probably one of the most widely simulated and analyzed mechanisms in recent years.
Planar Slider-Crank Mechanism
As shown in the figure, this model demonstrates the crank has a mass m1 (and length L1), while the connecting rod has a mass m2 (and length L2).
Physics
Bouncing Ball
This is a model of a ball that drops onto a vertically moving platform and reacts accordingly.
Solar System
This model simulates the orbits of various planets in our solar system under the influence of gravitational force from the Sun.
Lorenz Attractor
The Lorenz attractor, introduced by Edward Lorenz in 1963, is a three-dimensional system corresponding to the behaviour of chaotic flow.
The Foucault Pendulum
This model shows Leon Foucault's pendulum which demonstrates the rotation of the Earth by rotating the angle of the pendulum's swing.
Thermal
Design of a Home Heating Controller
In this model, a controller regulates the heating of a house given disturbances in the temperature of the environment.
HVAC Model with Digital Pulse
This example demonstrates the cooling of a room by a nonlinear valve which regulates ambient air flow.
Thermostat
This example demonstrates the use of the on-off controller with the thermal components to model a living space that is heated by a furnace.
Heating Rod
This application illustrates the use of MapleSim's thermal components for developing a model of a heated iron rod.
  
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