Creation of Virtual Environment with AMESim and its Integration with MATLAB/Simulink

Abstract

Increasingly, the aviation industry coexists with highly complex and integrated systems, parallel to the search of engineering tools simple to execute and reduce the complexity and effort in modeling systems and provide reliable results through the simulation. Accomplishing this task reduces the demand for time and costs in system modeling. Also, it is desirable to commercially available simulation environments to accomplish these expectations. In this context, this paper aims to integrate the electro-hydrostatic actuator (EHA) whose components are physically modeled in LMS Imagine.Lab AMESim software to MATLAB/Simulink®, through s-functions. With the implemented models, simulations are made in both environments; these results provide data for performance comparisons and conclusions about possible gains of this integration. Finally, it is taken advantage of the physical modeling AMESim to linearize a high fidelity model and uses it in linear control projects in MATLAB/Simulink® environment.