Real Time Hardware - in - the - Loop Vehicle S I M U Lati 0

REAL TIME HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP VEHICLE S I M U LATI 0 N Sheran Alles, Curtis Swick', Syed Mahmud, Feng Lin Electrical 6 Computer Engineering Dept. Wayne State University Detroit, MI 4 8 2 0 2 Ford Motor C o . Electrical/Electronic System Engineering Office Dearborn, MI 4 8 1 2 1 A computer simulation which simulates an engine, driveline, vehicle and tire/road surface models are described. Along with the models described, hardware of several control units (this specific case) were linked together to provide a generic real time Hardware-in-the-Loop (HTTL) simulation. Several reasons exist for developing a generic real time HITL simulation: to provide capability to verify analytical and experimental data to provide capability to acquire vehicle test parameters to input to HITL simulation . to provides powerful, complex and dynamic real time simulation yet portable (unlike large mainframe systems[3]) and cost effective.