Software Aided Engineering with VAS’ FMU-Factory 

With an ever-growing and constantly changing world, companies are striving to meet expectations requested by customers while navigating through mandated legislations and environmental needs… In the race for autonomous driving, VAS leads in its innovation towards a safe autonomous transport system with an increasing focus on virtual development to meet customer deliveries, regulatory compliances (be that machine directives or automotive regulations) and Volvo Group’s safety standards, as well as provide a safe and efficient environment for engineers to thrive.  

There are a lot of bits and pieces to this puzzle. In this presentation, we will focus on the need of representative vehicle dynamics models which are used throughout different stages of the development. We will share a glimpse of VAS’ FMU factory where vehicle models are developed.  

The FMU factory at VAS is based on a Modelica library built using Modelon’s Vehicle Dynamics Library. To be in control of the quickly growing FMU factory, engineers are to focus on the product development and rely on automated processes and set of tools that make their work traceable and seamless. This is what we call Software Aided Engineering (SAE) – where engineers benefit from software processes for development of engineering products. At the core of this automated process is the short and quick feedback loop that engineers get from regression testing of the Modelica library. 

Join the session to see how VAS capitalizes on Modelon Testing Toolkit (MTT) for regression testing to ensure a robust and ever-growing vehicle model library.