Maplesoft is releasing the pilot version of a new tool that the company believes will set new standards in the modelling and simulation industry.
Maplesim is a high-performance multi-domain modelling and simulation tool that will dramatically reduce the time taken to bring products to market by using physical modelling techniques.
Jim Cooper, CEO of Maplesoft, states: “In Maplesim, the world’s most advanced symbolic computing engine (Maple) comes together with traditional numeric solvers to supercharge the simulation and modelling process. With traditional techniques, modelling even simple systems is arduous and time-consuming; with Maplesim, users can simply recreate a system diagram on a screen and the equations of the model are automatically generated. With savings of anywhere from weeks to months, Maplesim marks the beginning of a new era.”
Maplesim is claimed to offer numerous advantages over traditional tools. Specifically:
* Maplesim allows users to mix physical components with traditional signal-flow blocks
* The model diagram looks like the real system being modelled
* Multi-domain models are easily assembled from pre-built components
* Units management removes potential conversion and consistency errors
* Live design documentation captures the analysis behind the model
* Systems of equations representing the model are automatically generated
* Complex models are automatically simplified using sophisticated symbolic techniques
Physical modelling, or physics-based modelling, is the process of modelling the dynamic behaviour of a system mathematically. Traditionally, this task requires significant manual effort to derive equations and manipulate them into a form that can be used by signal-flow simulation tools that employ a block-diagram paradigm. The block diagrams are more complex, harder to produce, and do not resemble the original system representation.
With the physical modelling techniques in Maplesim, users can recreate a system diagram on a screen using compact and intuitive components that represent a physical model, making it easier to build and understand. Maplesim has more than 500 components from over 10 domains such as electrical, mechanical, control design and thermal, organised into easy-to-navigate palettes.
With Maplesim, mathematical equations that represent a model are generated automatically, saving weeks, sometimes even months, on complex applications. The equations are also simplified automatically, yielding concise models and high-speed simulations of sophisticated systems.
At the core of Maplesim is Maple’s symbolic computation technology. Unlike purely numeric computation, symbolic technology can convert a physical system representation directly into mathematical equations. Models created in this way are very concise and do not rely on iterative numeric routines to solve. This is said to provide the best simulation performance without generating errors typical of manual derivations.
Maplesim is now available in its pilot version to enable pilot users to test it and provide feedback.
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