Case Study: University of Waterloo accelerates autonomous vehicle development with Maplesoft Maple and MapleSim

University of Waterloo - Customer Case Study

The University of Waterloo’s Motion Research Group at WatCAR needed a comprehensive tool to support development and testing for its autonomous vehicle project, Autonomoose. The team turned to Maplesoft’s Maple and MapleSim to help model the vehicle’s powertrain and dynamics, and to run fast, accurate simulations for navigation and controller development.

Using Maplesoft’s MapleSim, supported by Maple’s symbolic computation, the researchers built and validated high-fidelity vehicle models, exported simulation code, and developed control-oriented models for real-time model-predictive control. This helped the team achieve real-time vehicle motion control and significant improvements in longitudinal performance, including increasing the Autonomoose’s operating speed to the limit of the test track, while continuing work on lateral control and moving-horizon estimation.

University of Waterloo

John McPhee

Canada Research Chair and Professor of Systems Design Engineering