Performance and Losses

With LMS Imagine.Lab Performance and Losses, users can define vehicle powertrain architectures for dedicated studies on performance and consumption. This helps engineers to design optimal strategies to reduce fuel consumption while providing a consistent output power curve within the engine’s best operating range, which reduces mechanical losses and optimizes controls. LMS Imagine.Lab Performance and Losses gives engineers the required insight to take key design decisions for optimal customer satisfaction and comfort.

LMS Imagine.Lab Performance and Losses helps to accelerate the design of any kind of powertrain, drivelines and gearboxes: gasoline/diesel vehicles (sedan cars, utilities and trucks), hybrids (series, parallel and others), automatic gearboxes, CVT, IVT, DCT transmissions, accessories (air conditioning, power steering). Users can perform a detailed study of the various power consumptions in a chosen car architecture and are able to meet specific requirements with a system level analysis. LMS Imagine.Lab Performance and Losses comes with a set a state-of-the-art physical models and libraries to study the couplings between thermal, hydraulics, electrical and mechanicals domains. It also provides efficient simulations and quality results for optimized engine (ECU) and gearbox (TCU) control design and validation.

LMS Imagine.Lab Performances and Losses makes it possible to run off-line test procedure validation (HIL or/and SIL) and fully interface with Matlab Simulink and common real-time platforms (dSPACE, Opal RT, xPC Target); in this way integrating the design process from simulation to test bench. Finally, the solution can run performance testing and comparisons with customer’s requirements, and evaluate fuel consumption/emission according to ISO requirements (cumulated raw emission calculation).