Solutions
Integrate physics-based GT-SUITE plant models across MiL, SiL, and HiL environments for virtual calibration, validation, and real-time controls testing.
Solution Overview
GT-SUITE can be supplied as an external model via Simulink S-function and/or FMI standard. This way GT models are easily integrated into Simulink control system models for desktop simulation. GT-SUITE supports both running as the Lead and as the Follower software with controls or other CAE modeling tools. For moving to HiL based environments, GT models are quickly and semi-automatically converted to real time capable fast running or reduced order models (FRM, ROM), and ported to popular HiL systems. To run physical, predictive engine models on a HiL system, GT offers GT-POWER-xRT, a solution dedicated to the current and future requirements of high-speed ECUs.
Using the same governing equations as GT-POWER, GT-POWER-xRT has been tailored specifically for the needs of ECU calibration and testing, providing unparalleled execution speed, thus allowing for increased model complexity on the test bench. Advanced control strategies, such as combustion control, can now be tested with a detailed physical engine model at significantly faster computation speeds with minimum effort and maximum accuracy, predictiveness, and fidelity.
Under the same principle, GT-SUITE-RT can support non-engine applications such as electric vehicle applications (EV), Thermal management simulation, Battery management simulations for controls calibration or aftertreatment real-time simulation for real driving emissions prediction.
Application Highlights
Improve testing efficiency and model accuracy with integrated validation, debugging, and real-time simulation features.
GT-POWER-xRT delivers unparalleled execution speed for running detailed, physical engine models directly on HiL systems, enabling advanced combustion control strategies to be tested with maximum accuracy and fidelity.
GT-SUITE models integrate directly into Simulink, ASCET, and FMI-compliant environments as an S-function or FMI block, supporting both Lead and Follower co-simulation configurations without workflow disruption.
GT models are semi-automatically converted to fast-running or reduced-order models and ported to all major HiL platforms, including dSPACE, ETAS, National Instruments, Vector, and OPAL-RT, minimizing manual effort and accelerating deployment .
Perform model-based calibration of software functions using INCA via A2L files and XCP Protocol, with XCPHarness enabling direct connection between GT-SUITE and INCA or Silver without intermediate tools.
GT-SUITE RT extends real time simulation to electric vehicle systems, thermal management, battery management, fuel cell models, and aftertreatment, enabling controls calibration across the complete vehicle system on a single platform.
Run rapid parameter sweeps directly on the HiL system and leverage optional model logging for real-time debugging, reducing ECU and hardware restarts through GT parameter re-initialization .
Get answers to common questions about Control, MiL, SiL, and HiL simulation, testing, and validation.
GT-SUITE models are semi-automatically converted for real-time deployment, minimizing manual effort. For MiL and SiL, the baseline engine geometry can remain unchanged. HiL systems require some model simplification due to hardware constraints and hard real-time criteria, but GT-POWER-xRT is specifically designed to streamline this process with maximum accuracy and fidelity retained.
GT-SUITE supports all major HiL platforms, including dSPACE, ETAS, National Instruments, Vector, and OPAL-RT. Models are ported to these platforms through a structured conversion workflow, and GT-POWER-xRT provides the execution speed required to meet hard real-time criteria on each of them.
GT-POWER-xRT supports the Universal Measurement and Calibration Protocol (XCP) through XCPHarness, enabling direct connection with INCA and similar calibration environments. This allows GT models to function as virtual sensors for ECU development, dynamometer testing, in-vehicle validation, and race track applications without requiring intermediate tools.
GT-POWER-xRT delivers all common engine performance quantities as real-time signals, including instantaneous brake torque, cylinder pressure, IMEP, volumetric efficiency, and combustion burn points. Cycle-averaged quantities can be derived using built-in control parts, and it is recommended to perform signal averaging within the xRT model itself to avoid aliasing when the model is used as a plant model.
Ready to discuss how our Systems Simulation services can help your project? Fill out the form below and our team will get back to you within 1 business day.
Questions before you submit?
Email us at services@gammatech.com
By submitting this form, you agree to be contacted by Gamma Technologies regarding our services. We respect your privacy and will not share your information with third parties. See our Privacy Policy for more details.
