VI-BikeRealTime
VI-BikeRealTime is a modeling, post processing and real-time analysis environment for motorcycle models which allows designers, analysts and track engineers to take into account effects from the motorcycle itself as well as from the road profile and the rider.
VI-BikeRealTime is also the ideal platform to perform software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop activities on your motorcycle model. This is made possible thanks to the interface with MATLAB Simulink and with most widely used HIL platforms. In this way engineers can first develop reliable control systems in a safe environment and then test them checking how real ECUs interact with the virtual model. ECUs durability under realistic working conditions can be tested as well.
VI-BikeRealTime is interfaced with VI-Motorcycle, the ADAMS-based multibody solution for detailed motorcycle models, and therefore real-time models can be automatically derived from detailed multibody models. This approach, already proven to be successful in the automotive industry, allows users to decrease modelling time, to increase confidence in results and to maintain only one database.
VI-BikeRealTime has been proven to deliver reliable results in several different projects with leading motorcycle manufacturers. Despite of the fact that the model is simplified, results match very well experimental measurements.
Capabilities
- VI-BikeRealTime is a real-time environment for the simulation of high performance and production motorcycles and scooters.
- Automatic export from VI-Motorcycle.
- Model is divided in subsystems to make it easier to handle all input parameters. Available subsystems are: frame,
- front suspension, rear suspension, tires, brakes, gears, aerodynamics and powertrain.
- Easy-to-use interface with MATLAB Simulink for software-in-the-loop studies.
- VI-Tire Motorcycle tire model.
- Predefined events through VDF file.
- Possibility to run analyses on both 2D or 3D road profiles.
- Built-in postprocessing environment.
Benefits
- With VI-BikeRealTime it is possible to make design decisions in the shortest possible time at minimum cost.
- No need to validate the model from scratch when derived from detailed assemblies in VI-Motorcycle
- Increase the number of design variations to be studied.
- Understand the motorcycle behaviour in real-time.
