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Study of the Vehicle Controllability and Stability Based on Multi-body System Dynamics



Lin Hu*, 1, 2, Shengyong Fang2, 3, Jia Yang2, 3
1 Key Laboratory of Highway Engineering (Changsha University of Science & Technology), Ministry of Education, Changsha 410114, China
2 School of Automotive and Mechanical Engineering, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha 410114, China
3 Hunan Province Key Laboratory of Safety Design and Reliability Technology for Engineering Vehicle, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha 410114, China

Article Information


Identifiers and Pagination:

Year: 2014
Volume: 8
First Page: 865
Last Page: 871
Publisher Id: TOMEJ-8-865
DOI: 10.2174/1874155X01408010865

Article History:

Received Date: 08/01/2015
Revision Received Date: 15/01/2015
Acceptance Date: 16/01/2015
Electronic publication date: 31/12/2014
Collection year: 2014

© 2014 Hu and Fang

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Abstract

In this paper, the 135 Degree of Freedom multi-body system dynamics model was built by using the software ADAMS/CAR, according to the requests of Chinese standards, and the simulating research about 6 performances of automotive controllability and stability were carried on. Based on the simulating results, some automobile’s performance, such as return-ability, slalom-ability and steering efforts-ability, were excellent, but some other performances, such as steady state cornering ability, steering wheel angle pulse input response ability and steering wheel angle step input response ability, were not satisfied. In order to improve the performance of the automobile, three parameters, i.e. the automotive mass, the load of front axis and the torsion stiffness of rear stabilizer anti-roll bar, were selected as the optimized objects. Within the variety range of the parameters, the multi-body system of the automobile was optimized. Automotive controllability and stability is improved obviously based on the simulating results of the optimized multibody system.

Keywords: Controllability and Stability, multi-body system dynamics, optimize.