SOFTWARE

The powerful VxVehicles module provides an unparalleled toolkit of industry-unique capabilities that allow you to:

• Create highly realistic wheeled and tracked vehicles based on engineering design parameters. VxVehicles is the only commercially available simulation module for producing real-time 3D tracked vehicles
• Build complete driver simulations, integrating vehicle controls directly with VxVehicles inputs and outputs
• Deploy electric drives, multiple tracks, rigid or flexible tracks, articulated chassis, and several industry-standard tire-terrain models. Vehicles can combine any number of wheels and/or tracks in any configuration
• Simulate complete vehicle dynamics: the chassis, wheels, suspension, and power train
• Incorporate modifiable track, tire, and terrain properties using common vehicle engineering data models
• Tune and validate vehicle simulations against empirical measurements
• Mimic vehicle system faults and associated behaviours due to flexible parameters and constraints that can be modified in real-time
• Set the vehicle’s axes and create its chassis, including defining its mass and centre of mass
• Add a power train, which comprises an engine, a torque converter, an automatic transmission, and a differential
• Tune the engine using a full, adapted, or scalable torque table. The torque table describes the amount of torque the engine can deliver at a set RPM and for a given amount of throttle
• Define the transmission’s gear ratios and final gear ratio, and program automatic gear changing based on RPM
• Specify simple or quick gear-shifting modes
• Add suspension for wheeled or tracked vehicles, including stiffness and damping behaviour
• Define steering and brake controls
• Select from multiple tire models such as Magic Formula, Composite Slip, Fiala, and Soft Terrain, and specify tire normal force
• Configure rolling resistance on soil when using the Soft Terrain tire model
• Set the rolling resistance for tracked vehicles based on the terrain, as well as on internal friction in the wheel bearings and track deformation
• Create idler and sprocket parts for tracked vehicles manually or automatically from your specifications