Case Study: Hanyang University achieves 60% reduction in ECU development time and trains industry-ready engineers with MathWorks Model-Based Design

ACE Lab Saves ECU Development Time and Prepares Engineering Students for Industry with Model-Based Design

Hanyang University’s Automotive Control and Electronics Laboratory (ACE Lab) faced fragmented ECU development processes that caused manual-coding errors, delayed testing, and left students underprepared for the automotive industry. To unify development and incorporate industry-relevant training, Hanyang University adopted MathWorks tools for Model-Based Design, including MATLAB and Simulink and associated toolboxes.

MathWorks provided a Model-Based Design workflow—using Simulink, Simscape Driveline, Control System Toolbox, Simulink Coder/Embedded Coder, and Simulink Real-Time—to model systems, auto-generate C code, run hardware-in-the-loop tests, and deploy to target processors. By using MathWorks tools, ACE Lab reduced development time by 60%, built an extensible platform that integrates with test equipment and requirements tools, and increased the number of engineers trained from 200 to 450 in two years.

Hanyang University

Myoungho Sunwoo

Professor