Hello Everyone,
Im looking to build a driving simulator for a university project. The plan was to use a DnD motor with a Curtis controller to turn an 18 speed semi truck transmission. We would use matlab and simulink to program the arduino and run the simulator. Basically we would program a simulink model that would represent the engine and use a resistor hooked to the gas pedal for the input. Simulink would then turn the dnd motor according to our engine model. We would need to read the output speed that the transmission is turning at and input this into the program. We would give the driver a speed model to follow on the laptop screen and with the output speed of the transmission see how close he is coming to the target speed model.
Would something like this be possible on an arduino board with matlab. The basic problem is reading the input resistance from the pedal and send a voltage signal to the curtis controller. Then measure the RPM and input this data all simultaneously and display it on a laptop. I was told by another student that this would not be possible using arduino and simulink. Any advice would be much appreciated.