For motorized vehicles, such as automobiles, aircraft, and watercraft, vehicle dynamics is the study of vehicle motion, e.g., how a vehicle's forward movement changes in response to driver inputs, propulsion system outputs, ambient conditions, air/surface/water conditions, etc.
Vehicle dynamics is a part of engineering primarily based on classical mechanics.
The aspects of a vehicle's design which affect the dynamics can be grouped into drivetrain and braking, suspension and steering, distribution of mass, aerodynamics and tires.
Automobile layout (i.e. location of engine and driven wheels)
Powertrain
Braking system
Some attributes relate to the geometry of the suspension, steering and chassis. These include:
Ackermann steering geometry
Axle track
Camber angle
Caster angle
Ride height
Roll center
Scrub radius
Steering ratio
Toe
Wheel alignment
Wheelbase
Some attributes or aspects of vehicle dynamics are purely due to mass and its distribution. These include:
Center of mass
Moment of inertia
Roll moment
Sprung mass
Unsprung mass
Weight distribution
Some attributes or aspects of vehicle dynamics are purely aerodynamic. These include:
Automobile drag coefficient
Automotive aerodynamics
Center of pressure
Downforce
Ground effect in cars
Some attributes or aspects of vehicle dynamics can be attributed directly to the tires. These include:
Camber thrust
Circle of forces
Contact patch
Cornering force
Ground pressure
Pacejka's Magic Formula
Pneumatic trail
Radial Force Variation
Relaxation length
Rolling resistance
Self aligning torque
Skid
Slip angle
Slip (vehicle dynamics)
Spinout
Steering ratio
Tire load sensitivity
Car handling
Some attributes or aspects of vehicle dynamics are purely dynamic. These include:
Body flex
Body roll
Bump Steer
Bundorf analysis
Directional stability
Critical speed
Noise, vibration, and harshness
Pitch
Ride quality
Roll
Speed wobble
Understeer, oversteer, lift-off oversteer, and fishtailing
Weight transfer and load transfer
Yaw
The dynamic behavior of vehicles can be analysed in several different ways.
This page is automatically generated and may contain information that is not correct, complete, up-to-date, or relevant to your search query. The same applies to every other page on this website. Please make sure to verify the information with EPFL's official sources.
Automobile handling and vehicle handling are descriptions of the way a wheeled vehicle responds and reacts to the inputs of a driver, as well as how it moves along a track or road. It is commonly judged by how a vehicle performs particularly during cornering, acceleration, and braking as well as on the vehicle's directional stability when moving in steady state condition. In the automotive industry, handling and braking are the major components of a vehicle's "active" safety, as well as its ability to perform in auto racing.
Automotive suspension design is an aspect of automotive engineering, concerned with designing the suspension for cars and trucks. Suspension design for other vehicles is similar, though the process may not be as well established.
The Ackermann steering geometry is a geometric arrangement of linkages in the steering of a car or other vehicle designed to solve the problem of wheels on the inside and outside of a turn needing to trace out circles of different radii. It was invented by the German carriage builder Georg Lankensperger in Munich in 1816, then patented by his agent in England, Rudolph Ackermann (1764–1834) in 1818 for horse-drawn carriages. Erasmus Darwin may have a prior claim as the inventor dating from 1758.
Explores Real-Time Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for fast mechatronic systems and its applications in rocket control, autonomous parking, and racing.
Path-following control is a critical technology for autonomous vehicles. However, time-varying parameters, parametric uncertainties, external disturbances, and complicated environments significantly challenge autonomous driving. We propose an iterative rob ...
This paper proposes a novel method to improve georeferencing of airborne laser scanning by improved trajectory estimation using Vehicle Dynamic Model. In Vehicle Dynamic Model (VDM), the relationship between the dynamics of the platform and control inputs ...
2023
,
The current advances in the integration of devices through the internet of things (IoT) have encouraged researchers to focus on the applications of IoT in the automotive industry. Although different achievements in the in-vehicle network analysis and traff ...