Compendium in Vehicle Motion Engineering
Report, 2022

This compendium is written for the course “MMF062 Vehicle Motion Engineering” at Chalmers University of Technology. The compendium covers more than included in that course; both in terms of subsystem designs and in terms of some teasers for more advanced studies of vehicle dynamics. Therefore, it is also useful for the more advanced courses, such as “TME102 Vehicle Modelling and Control”.

The overall objective of the compendium is to educate engineers that understand and can contribute to development of good motion and energy functionality of vehicles. The compendium focuses on road vehicles, primarily passenger cars and commercial vehicles. Smaller road vehicles, such as bicycles and single-person cars, are only very briefly addressed. It can be mentioned that there exist a lot of ground-vehicle types not covered at all, such as: off-road/construction vehicles, tracked vehicles, horse wagons, hovercrafts, and railway vehicles.

Functions are needed for requirement setting, design and verification. The overall order within the compendium is that models/methods/tools needed to understand each function are placed before the functions. Chapters 3-5 describes (complete vehicle) “functions”, organised after vehicle motion directions:
·         Chapter 3: Longitudinal dynamics
·         Chapter 4: Lateral dynamics
·         Chapter 5: Vertical dynamics

Chapter 1 introduces automotive industry and the overall way of working there and defines required pre-knowledge from “product-generic” engineering, e.g. modelling of dynamic systems.

Chapter 2 also describes the subsystems relevant for vehicle dynamics:
• Wheels and Tyre 
• Suspension 
• Propulsion 
• Braking System 
• Steering System 
• Environment Sensing System

The compendium is released in a new version each year, around October, which is the version your read now. A "latest draft" is more frequently updated and often includes some more, sometimes unfinished, material: https://chalmersuniversity.box.com/s/6igaen1ugcjzuhjziuon08axxiy817fg

Vehicle motion control

Vehicle energy control

Vehicle dynamics

Vehicle motion

Modelica

Modelling

Author

Bengt J H Jacobson

Chalmers, Mechanics and Maritime Sciences (M2), Vehicle Engineering and Autonomous Systems

Mats Jonasson

Chalmers, Mechanics and Maritime Sciences (M2), Vehicle Engineering and Autonomous Systems

Fredrik Bruzelius

Chalmers, Mechanics and Maritime Sciences (M2), Vehicle Engineering and Autonomous Systems

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

Areas of Advance

Transport

Energy

Subject Categories

Energy Engineering

Vehicle Engineering

Control Engineering

Infrastructure

ReVeRe (Research Vehicle Resource)

Publisher

Chalmers University of Technology

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Latest update

10/26/2023