Hardware Acceleration of Multibody Simulations for Real-Time Embedded Applications

Abstract

[Abstract] New products in the automotive and aerospace industries must provide increased energy efficiency and exceed previous performance, safety and reliability. To meet these expectations, the role of simulation continues to grow. Within this context, simulation models are used in real-time embedded applications such as advanced real-time control and virtual sensing. Both applications require the execution of simulation models in real-time on embedded hardware. The limited computational power of this hardware is, however, a major challenge in the adoption of model-based embedded applications. This research explores the use of multibody models for real-time embedded applications. It describes different techniques to accelerate parts or all of the multibody computations on ARM-based and/or FPGA-based hardware.