Features and functions of a passenger car can be combined arbitrarily according to a modular system. As a solution interdisciplinary skill and systems engineering can be offered. AVL presents a multi-disciplinary tool chain to support the design of a city vehicle which describes how an design process looks like which is optimised with the principles of systems engineering.
CarMaker can be interfaced with Matlab on the level of which inputs to the vehicle (driver inputs) and the vehicle outputs (vehicle dynamics data) can be made available. This interface can be used for a co-simulation with PreScan exploiting the potential of a dedicated vehicle dynamics tool when simulating ADA systems.