Overview

Adams Solver can participate in co-simulations performed in the SCALEXIO® real time environment from dSPACE. This is achieved via extensions to Adams' support for the Functional Mockup Interface (FMI). A functional mockup (FMU) unit exported from Adams Controls or Adams Mechatronics within Adams View or Adams Car can be imported into Configuration Desk® from dSPACE.

The fixed step integration option within Adams Solver ensures that a fixed amount of work is completed in a given time to satisfy the requirements for a real time operating system (RTOS). This is achieved by limiting the number of Newton steps in the implicit solve (that is, number of iterations per Adams Solver integration step) to ensure a fixed amount of work is performed.

In this example you will prepare an Adams Car vehicle model for running in the real time environment. Then you will export an FMU which you will subsequently import into Configuration Desk®. From there you can run the model in real-time optionally driving it with hardware-in-the-loop steering, brake and accelerator system.

The Adams Real Time Animation can also be used in combination with SCALEXIO. To enable the animation, during the export of an FMU the geometry of the model needs to be included as explained in Getting Started Adams Real Time Animation. Adams Real Time Animation cannot be configured to run directly on SCALEXIO hardware. It should be configured to run on a separate Linux PC that is connected to the Linux OS of SCALEXIO.