JMAAB Plant Modeling Guidelines and vehicle architecture

Plant Modeling Working Group (PM-WG) of Japan Matlab^reg Automotive Advisory Board (JMAAB) developed ldquoPlant Modeling Guidelines using Matlab^regrdquo with the collaboration of automotive companies and released the guidelines accompanied by a sample vehicle model in 2008. They recommend the vehicle model architecture and how to draw vehicle models with the good portability and readability. PM-WG has introduced a new capability called Two-Way-Connection (TWC) into Simulink^reg which allows us to draw models with the intuitive physical image assembling parts. The sample model was constructed based on TWC. The guidelines intend to be referenced in other plant modeling tools because TWC can be a bridge between a tool based on causal modeling (signal flow or data flow mechanism) and another tool based on recent acausal modeling with connection mechanism.