Build a Full Truck with Drivers Model

This section briefly explains a Full truck with driver model.

Follow the steps in the Build a Heavy Truck Model topic using the Assembly tool to build a Full truck with driver model. After building the model, the following model is displayed in the modeling window.
Figure 1.


Events

The section explains how to add an event to the full truck model. Currently, the following event types are available:
  • Constant Radius
  • Single Lane Change
  • Double Lane Change
  • Swept Sine
  • Straight Line Acceleration
  • Straight Line Braking
  • Sinusoidal Steering
  • BrakeIn Turn
  • J Turn
  • Throttle off cornering
  • Swept Steer
  • Pulse Steer
  • Throttle off TurnIn
  • Step Steer
  • Power off ln Straight Line
  • Altair Driver File
  • Road Course
  • nPost

Each event has different options and inputs required. For example, the Constant Radius event is explained in the following steps.

  1. Click the Events icon under the Modeling ribbon, to access the Events folder in the Entity Browser.
    Figure 2.


  2. Go to the Car & Truck folder and double-click on the ConstRadius icon . The event will be added to the model and its properties is listed in the Entity Editor.
    Figure 3.


  3. Set the event parameters under the Parameters section.
  4. Set the simulation parameters under the Simulation Settings section.
    Note: Other settings such as Signal settings and Controller settings may be reviewed and changed. Refer to Event documentation for more details.

    The event is ready to run.

  5. In the Solutions ribbon, click the Analysis settings dialog satellite icon on the Run icon to open the Run Motion Analysis dialog.
    Figure 4.


  6. Provide a Run name and an Output directory.
  7. Optionally, click Run offline to run the model through a separate solver process.
  8. Click the Run button.
    MotionSolve is invoked and it displays the Run status window (or the solver window if running offline) with progress as it runs.
    Note: Run files will have the event’s variable name appended to the Run name.

    The generated file types are .adf, .plt, and .h3d files.

  9. Click on the Reports ribbon icon under the Solutions group to bring up the View Reports dialog.
  10. Select the report row corresponding to the event and click OK to generate plots and animation.