Motar bridges the gap
from model to target
The software that prevents collisions and breakdowns, that automatically controls headlights and monitors the maintenance status is complex. Wouldn’t it be great if your ECU firmware is ready as soon as the prototype model is finished? With the Motar-platform, this vision becomes a reality. Once your Simulink® prototype model is ready, you can build and flash your model on a hardware target from within Simulink with the click of a button. Motar bridges the gap from model to target.
What is Motar?
Motar enables mechanical engineers in the automotive industry to create software without programming skills. The Motar-platform consists of a Simulink blockset, a Basic SW (BSW) stack based on AUTOSAR, and optionally, a custom-made HW platform. This enables quick and flexible model-based development with lower costs. By using the Motar-toolbox for Simulink, a scalable solution compliant with AUTOSAR is provided. Motar provides a seamless integration with model-based development tools to enable full integration support at the model level rather than at source code level.
The following MathWorks products are necessary for integration: MATLAB®, Simulink, MATLAB Coder™, Simulink Coder™, and Embedded Coder®. Motar contains a Simulink Blockset that enables users to generate their model (ECU firmware) completely from Simulink.
Technology Partner InMotion
For the development of their full electric formula racecar, the Fusion, our partner InMotion used the Motar-platform. Motar ECUs are used for the control of every electronic function in this car. ICT and InMotion have been developing these ECUs together in a close partnership. This lead to a record-breaking formula car, which currently holds the laprecords at the Zandvoort, Zolder and Assen tracks. Furthermore, for InMotion’s concept endurance racecar, the Vision, Motar makes sure that a lot of the software developed and tested for the Fusion can be reused.
TNO selects Motar for EcoTwin project
TNO, an independent organization for Applied Scientific Research in the Netherlands, selected Motar to add value to their prestigious EcoTwin project. The EcoTwin project uses a 3-Truck platooning concept, in which three trucks cooperate by using automated driving technology. TNO has selected the ICT Motar solution to support the “EcoTwin” project because it significantly reduced both development time and development costs.
Publications
Case study: Conmeq verkort de time-to-market met Motar
ICT and InMotion about InMotion’s ‘Road to Le Mans’ and the vital contribution of ICT Group’s Motar platform (magazine Bits&Chips April 2016).
ICT and Farmertronics about the developing of the Electronic Control Units (ECU’s) – based on Motar – to control the unmanned clean tech tractor, the eTrac-20 (magazine Aandrijftechniek mei 2016).
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