Importance of close linkage among modeling, control design, calibration and verification for automotive controls

The automotive industry has encountered the complexity issue of control system development due to the pressures from the social demands of fuel economy, clean exhaust gas and safety. MBD (Model-Based Development) has been regarded as the direction to mitigate the issue. The close linkages among modeling, control design, calibration and verification are highly important to make MBD process efficient because a missing linkage interrupts control system developments and drastically decreases the productivity of development.