A month ago I saw a news article about the re-discovered remains of an experimental aircraft catapult that was unearthed just outside oxford. As I read I thought it would be an interesting combination of realms of simulation that we could easily model and set myself a challenge to...
Setting up software licensing mechanisms sometimes feels like the biggest source of frustration in my life. (I’m only halfway joking…) With that said, we at Claytex attempt to minimize this pain. As you likely realize, software licensing is one of the necessary evils in the life of a commercial...
With the exponential introduction of autonomy, especially in vehicles, comes the increased need to test controllers under edge case scenarios. AVSandbox deals with edge cases in the environment around a vehicle; but there also needs to be consideration of edge cases within the vehicle; particularly to test and train...
I was recently asked to build out a set of drag racing simulation models in Dymola, utilizing the VeSyMA suite of Modelica libraries, that could be used as a demo to show prospective drag racing customers. After all, we haven’t seen much penetration of simulation into this market, and...
Press Release Leamington Spa, UKJuly 24th, 2023 Image: Courtesy of McMurtry Automotive Claytex, a TECHNIA Company renowned for its expertise in modelling and simulation, today announced its strategic partnership with McMurtry, a groundbreaking automotive manufacturer. This collaboration aims to enhance the design, performance, and record-breaking capabilities of McMurtry’s high...
If you are modelling complex systems, such as full vehicle models, then you will have seen that they can include large transient periods at the start of simulation, before settling to a steady state. Colloquially this is known as the “settling phase”. Excessive settling in a model can cause...
Last year as part of the 2022.1 release of the VehicleDemos library, Claytex added a Hydrogen Fuel Cell Electric (FCEV) bus model. Created out of the existing EV bus example, it showcased integrating models from the Hydrogen Library with VeSyMA vehicle models. Ambitiously, a high level of detail was...
The Suspensions library is full of experiments that test the full vehicle dynamics. However, it can be very difficult to validate models using full vehicle experiments, such as the common Kinematic and Compliance (KnC) test. This kind of test, as the name suggests, details the suspension kinematics (force and...
A few years ago, I wrote a blog post about writing tidy code, pointing out that it’s a good idea to be disciplined when laying out a code layer. After all, you (or someone else) will be coming back to look at this code in the future, so laying...
Evolving out of the ferociously popular German DTM series in the mid 1990s, the International Touring Car Championship (ITC) featured exotic and sophisticated racing cars; certainly, the most advanced production-based racing cars ever seen. Ballooning budgets from 3 large European manufacturers: Mercedes-Benz, Opel and Alfa Romeo, allied to a...
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