Adams Mechatronics

Adams Mechatronics is a plug-in to Adams which can be used to easily incorporate control systems into mechanical models. Adams Mechatronics has been developed based on the Adams Control functionality and contains modeling elements which transfer information to/from the control system. For example, using Adams Mechatronics in Adams Car, you can quickly create assemblies of vehicle systems including control systems, and then analyze them to understand their performance and behavior.

Using Adams Mechatronics you can create control systems with different level of complexity. You can use function builder to build a simple control function. If you have your control system defined in a control package such as Easy 5 or Matlab/Simulink, then you can perform a co-simulation between mechanical model defined in Adams and control system defined in the control package. Alternatively, you can generate the control system code as a dynamic link library file (a dll file in Windows, also known as external system library or simply ESL file in Adams Mechtronics) using the control package and then do all calculation within Adams.