MathWorks Automotive Conference brought together engineers, researchers, and scientists to share real-world examples and learn more about the latest automotive trends like software-defined vehicles, virtual engineering, electrification, and automated driving.
Electrification
Automated Driving
Software-Defined Vehicles
Attendees learned about the latest trends in the automotive industry.
Participants engaged in master classes delivered by senior MathWorks engineers on electrification, automated driving, and software-defined vehicles.
Attendees heard about real-world applications from leading MathWorks customers.
Participants met with MATLAB and Simulink users, MathWorks technical engineers, and product developers.
The development of software-defined vehicles demands processes that can help decouple software from hardware, design self-contained apps for easy updates, and automate software build and testing, while still ensuring the consistency and traceability required for software quality, safety, and security.
Model-Based Design offers distinct advantages that can help you go from software architecture conceptualization to component design and back up to software integration and testing–enabling higher quality and reliability of the final product. In this presentation, you’ll see how Simulink® is rapidly evolving to realize this vision. Recent investments have helped create an environment that accounts for major trends in service-oriented architectures, code-based component development, virtual testing, continuous integration, and much more.
MathWorks
Ramamurthy Mani is the engineering director responsible for enhancing the core language of Simulink with a special focus on system and software architectures and large-scale simulations. Mani started at MathWorks in 1998 in software development and has made several contributions to the modeling capabilities in Simulink, System Composer, and SimEvents. More recently, he and his team have been focusing on workflows for model-based systems engineering, modeling distributed software architectures, and multi-agent system-of-system simulations. Mani holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Boston University.
Electric vehicle systems are much more complex compared to IC engine-based vehicles, due to the larger number or electronically controlled power components and the expectation of seamless integration with infotainment and connectivity systems. An integrated systems engineering approach, transcending the six dimensions of integration—mechanical, electrical, signal, control, heat transfer, and mass transfer—is needed to efficiently integrate the various components in an electric vehicle so that vehicle reliability, performance targets, and program timelines are met. Rigorous breaking down of system requirements to component requirements, decoupling of component requirements, and robust test case generation to test these requirements are three key elements of an effective system engineering process. Such a process will enable different engineering teams to pursue their designs in parallel with each other while avoiding costly mistakes due to integration errors as the prototypes are built. Mathematical modeling of the system components, their requirements, and the system control strategy in an integrated manner would best serve this. However, to fully utilize the benefits of model-based systems engineering, this process must be fully integrated into the overall vehicle engineering process.
Mahindra Last Mile Mobility
Philip Jose has over 25 years of experience in electric powertrain design and development for heavy duty vehicles, passenger cars, three-wheelers, and two-wheelers. He led the development of electric powertrain system for series hybrid bus and fuel cell bus at Tata Motors. At Bajaj, he was instrumental in the design of electric powertrain for Chetak EV as well as indigenous development of electric powertrain components for the entire range of vehicles at Bajaj. Philip completed a B. Tech. in electrical engineering from IIT Madras and a Ph.D. in the same subject from the University of Minnesota.
TCS
Sanjeev Madhav is the global head of Intelligent Products, Automotive at TCS and has more than 29 years of industry experience. Sanjeev manages customer relationships and delivery for global automotive manufacturers and auto component makers across Japan, North America, Europe, and Asia. He is also responsible for strategic planning and business development and is instrumental in identifying and developing futuristic solution accelerators in autonomous driving, electrification, connected and vehicle architecture.
