lms imagine.lab amesim: supervise your systems with dashboard

Supervise your systemsCreate human-machine interface with

dashboard for your LMS Amesim models

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LMS Imagine.Lab Amesim™

A world leading platform for physical

simulation of mechatronic systems

Unrestricted © Siemens AG 2017

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LMS Amesim dashboard in a nutshell

Applications for:Automotive and transportationAerospace and defenseHeavy equipmentIndustrial machinery

LMS Amesim dashboard in detail

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Introduction to the dashboard in LMS Amesim

• What is the dashboard?

• The dashboard is an “analysis tool” that

helps users to monitor and regulate their

LMS Amesim models with graphical

displays and controls

• Users can stream their simulation using

gauges (meters, progress bars, …), shapes

(custom images, texts, …), controls,

buttons, or joysticks

• Finally, users create an interactive

interface of controls and displays

associated to their LMS Amesim models

A customization example with the

horizontal gauge:

Fully customizable



Introduction to the dashboard in LMS Amesim

• Properties can be driven by simulation results (e.g. values, text, colors, position, rotation, opacity…)

• Users can change the parameters before simulation, and during simulation by using the predefined

primitives (knobs, gauges, switches, sliders, …) available in the dashboard toolboxes

• It’s fully integrated in LMS Amesim to provide a front-end user interface to your models

Mechanical gearsBouncing ball Electrical circuit



Dashboard: overview

• Create a new post-processing 2D scene in

Dashboard with a set of primitives and

commands

• Use predefined dashboard toolboxes

• Link simulation results using various

primitives

• Animate the scene with object properties:

position, rotation, sizes, colors, …

• Export the 2D animation to videos

Simple workflow



Dashboard overview: toolboxes for all types of use

Main capabilities

Sets of graphical instrumentation for

monitoring and controlling signals and

parameters of your LMS Amesim models



Dashboard overview: automotive toolbox

Automotive symbols can be

easily put in the automotive

dashboard and panels to

design your own association

• Car symbols, warning lights, alarms, and indicators

• For pre- and post-processing

Main capabilities



Dashboard overview: flight instruments toolbox

• Flight instruments gauges for aerospace model result visualization

• Yoke control

Real aircraft

Same view in dashboard

Main capabilities Set up realistic-looking instruments for your LMS Amesim model, to accurately

represent the environment that you are modeling



Dashboard templates in the LMS Amesim online documentation

30+

templates

included

in LMS

Amesim



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Dashboard: GUI capabilities

Bidirectional link between parameter and control

Video export

Export/import toolboxGroup/ungroup

Customization for user toolbox



Dashboard: batch support

• The batch support allows to easily switch among batch results

“Light vehicle”

“Heavy vehicle”“Normal vehicle”



Execute and analyze with synchronized post-processing tools

• Thanks to a shared timeline between post-processing tools, the instant of state activation can be

viewed in the dashboard, the 3D animation and the plots.

Synchronized animation of post-processing tools

3D animation

DashboardStatechart

Plot



Dashboard stateless buttons

• Interactive simulation with dynamic input change

Specific stateless controls in the automotive toolboxStateless controls toolbox

Neutral positionHold button

pressed position

Visualize effect with “automatic

update” in the plot



Interactive control

• Interactive dashboard controls (like buttons, sliders, steering wheel etc.) are animated

according to user interaction (when used with the interactive signal input during simulation)

• Allows to see through dashboard how user interacts with the model during simulation

Animated interactive controls during Dashboard

animation



Plug and play of joysticks and any kind of controllers

• Create virtual environment close to reality that allows human to control the simulation interactively

Human-computer Interface LMS Amesim dashboardIndustry

Automotive

Aerospace and

defense

Off-highway

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Application #1: electric vehicle flowchart with powertrain cooling

LMS Amesim

Arrows of the powertrain chain from the battery to the wheel are red when

the battery is the power source and green when the battery is charging



Application #2: power flow chart of a series-hybrid vehicle

The ECU model is able to select the driving mode according to the information received like speed, battery state of charge



Application #3: vehicle thermal management of a conventional vehicle

The flow chart is helpful to optimize thermal management

strategies like by using coolant mechanical pump with

clutch or changing thermostat opening temperature



Application #4: ABS and ESP controllers for sine with dwell maneuver

The system includes two models

running in co-simulation, and can be

exported to real-time targets

The regulation modes of the ABS and

ESP controllers are summarized in this

table



Application #5: control validation of an automotive power window system

Visualize the flow changes in your statechart thanks to the post-processing tools

synchronization

Associate the

dynamic input

change to the

state properties

of the control

primitives

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Application #1: aircraft hydraulic system

The tank displays the instantaneous flow consumption of the hydraulic

system, and the red bar next to it indicates the maximum flow that can be

delivered by the pump



Application #2: fuel management system

The dashboard shows the ECAM fuel page (Electronic Centralized Aircraft

Monitor) to visualize the fuel quantities and temperature in each tank



Application #3: power budget of a four-engine AC/DC electrical network

On a commercial “more electric

aircraft”, the electrical power is

split into:

• Alternating current (AC)

network powered

by synchronous generators

• Direct current (DC) network

powered

by batteries and transformer

rectifiers units

AC and DC networks are represented with

two dashboards



Application #4: transient of an aircraft pneumatic system with bleed system

Temperatures, pressures and mass flow rates can be

checked in the dashboard all along the flight mission

In conventional aircraft, the pneumatic system

supplies high-pressure air for air conditioning,

wing anti-icing, engine starting, hydraulic

reservoir pressurization and water

pressurization



Application #5: quadcopter

Quadcopter model with flight dynamics (body,

aerodynamic efforts and propeller) and 3D

mechanical (contact with the ground)

components. Control loops on drone position

and altitude are used to pilot the quadcopter.

Maneuvering principle



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Application #1: hydrostatic transmission tractor

The transmission of the power in the

system can be checked depending on

which clutch is engaged

Note the losses in the hydraulic units due to the efficiencies and the mechanical dissipation in the

gears and clutches

LMS Amesim



Model of tanker

LMS Amesimship resistance

diesel engine

propeller

Application #2: mission profile of a tanker to follow a specific path

1. Acceleration to max speed for a displacement of 50 km

2. Stay in max speed for a displacement of 30 km

3. Stop the engine until the boat stops

Dashboard to view instantaneous results



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Application #1: steam plant, importing multiple FMUs

heat flow

LMS Amesim environment (master)

for heterogeneous simulation

Modelica-based

FMU for model

exchange

C-based FMU for

Co-simulation

Mechanical load

Speed controller

Steam plant



Application #2: weaving machine

Weaving

loom model

Energy flow chart, all in percentage (%) of total energy consumed



Application #3: reluctance machine controlled as a stepper motor

In the dashboard, a red inductor appears when the

current through the winding is high.

At 0.24s, a green arrow appears to show that a

disturbance torque is applied



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Dashboard user guide in LMS Amehelp



LMS Amesim enables you to tailor your platform to your specific needs with the app

designer, plots Python API, application-specific tools for pre-processing and post-

processing as well as customized parameter editing using external executables.

Use advanced LMS Amesim scripting tools for model interaction automation and LMS

Amesim APIs for full command-line building of complete models.

LMS Amesim helps improve your system design with LMS Amesim design exploration,

LMS Amesim export module or the LMS Amesim-Optimus interface.

LMS Amesim enables you to analyze your data and system results with advanced

plotting facilities, dashboard, animation, table editor, linear analysis, activity index and

replay.

LMS Imagine.Lab Amesim comes with unique usability and scalability capabilities with

all the LMS Amesim graphical user interfaces (GUI), interactive help and associated

features such as the supercomponent facility, batch run monitor, experiment manager,

post-processed variables and Statechart designer.

More about the LMS Imagine.Lab Amesim platform

Platform

facilities

Analysis

tools

Optimization, robustness, design of

experiments

Simulator scripting

Customization



LMS Imagine.Lab Amesim supports Modelica, the open standard language for

describing physical systems. The Modelica platform provides the tools you need to

build acausal, multi-domain Modelica models and leverage the LMS Amesim platform

features to analyze the resulting system.

LMS Amesim can be coupled with external software applications such as CAE, CAD,

CAM, FEA/FEM and computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Co-simulation provides

coupling between LMS Amesim and CAE tools with predefined setups to ensure good

dialog between the tools and simulation software.

LMS Amesim provides co-simulation capabilities with any software coupled with LMS

Amesim due to the generic co-simulation capability and functional mock-up interface

(FMI), to complete heterogeneous simulations within an unique integration platform.

The LMS Amesim unique integrated platform provides realistic plant models for every

stage of the development cycle, enabling system and control engineers to start

evaluation and validation phases early in the design cycle using model-in-the-loop

(MiL), software-in-the-loop (SiL) and hardware-in-the-loop (HiL) frameworks.

LMS Amesim integrates cutting-edge numerical methods, performance analyzer,

discrete partitioning library for CPU speed-up, a parallel processing feature for

multiprocessor task distribution as well as High Performance Computing (HPC).

More about the LMS Imagine.Lab Amesim platform

Solvers

and numerics

MIL/SIL/HIL

and real-time

Software

interfaces

1D/3D

CAE

Modelica

platform



Jérôme GUILLEMIN

Stéphane NEYRATLMS Amesim Platform

Siemens Industry Software S.A.S.

Digital Factory Division

Product Lifecycle Management

Simulation & Test Solutions

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