Framework

What This Was This wasn’t a project with a start date and a delivery date. It was three to four years of incremental work on a living codebase that had to keep working while being extended. Mercedes-Benz R&D, in collaboration with other European OEMs, built an in-house full-vehicle simulation framework on top of CarSim — initially scoped for IC engine vehicles. When I joined in 2015, the task was to extend that framework for EV, HEV, and PHEV architectures, improve the existing model libraries, and build the component models that didn’t yet exist. ...