INTEGRATED SIMULATION OF MECHANICS, ELECTRONICS AND CONTROL

Designing mechatronic systems requires input from different disciplines, mechanical engineering, power electronics, electrical machines and digital/software control. These various discipline components of a system are mostly designed separately, but in the end all components have to form one system. Therefore analysis of such a system has to include all components and the analysis has to be based on one general model. The various components in the system are based on different techniques, but together determine the system behavior of the total system. In this paper methods are presented that allow the integrated analysis based on one general method for a mechatronic system. The focus will be on coupling various modeling methods as well as co-simulation between Finite Element analysis and system simulation.