Course detail
Virtual Prototypes and Virtual Enviroment
FSI-QVQAcad. year: 2024/2025
Virtual prototypes created using so-called multi-body software play a significant role in today's product development process. This software greatly enhances the efficiency of engineering work and reduces the financial demands of development. The subject focuses on the use of these tools in the design and testing of both traditional and autonomous vehicles. Students will acquire the necessary knowledge to independently create virtual prototypes, gain an overview of the problems that can be solved using multi-body software, understand the data required to create a model, and understand what results they can get. For the practical part of the course, software that is among the most significant and widely used in the automotive industry is chosen.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Entry knowledge
Matrix calculus. Basic knowledge of numerical mathematics and technical mechanics, kinematics, dynamics.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Attendance at seminars is obligatory, checked by a teacher. The way of compensation of absence is solved individually with a course provider.
Aims
The aim of the course is to make students familiar with theoretical and practical knowledge of multi-body software. They will learn of multi-body software and its development trends.
Students will have a clear idea of which problems are possible to solve with the multi-body software, what data are necessary, what outputs they are able to get. Students will also acquire the necessary knowledge to enable them to independently create multi-body models using software tools.
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
ADAMS Online Help. 2023. (EN)
AL-TABEY, Wael. Study of Vehicles Handling & Riding Characteristics by Adams Software: full study of automotive handling and riding characteristics using MSC-ADAMS software. Saarbrücken, 2012. ISBN 978-3-8484-3942-3. (EN)
GÜHMANN, Clemens, Jens RIESE a Klaus VON RIEDEN. Simulation and Testing for Vehicle Technology: 7th Conference. Berlín: Springer Verlag, 2016. ISBN 331932344X. (EN)
IPG - Carmaker Reference Manual. 2023. (EN)
SCHIEHLEN, W. (ed.) Multibody Systems Handbook. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1990 (EN)
STEJSKAL, V., VALÁŠEK, M. Kinematics and dynamics of machinery. Marcel Dekker, Inc. 1996. ISBN 0-8247-9731-0 (EN)
Recommended reading
Getting Started Using ADAMS/View. [on-line Adams software tutorial] MSC.Software Corporation.
PACEJKA, Hans B. Tire and vehicle dynamics. Third Edition. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2012. ISBN 9780080970165.
Road vehicles - Vehicle dynamics and road-holding ability – Vocabulary, ISO8855 : 2011 (E/F), International Organization for Standardization, Switzerland
SCHIEHLEN, W. (ed.) Dynamics of High-Speed Vehicles. Wien-New York: Springer-Verelag, 1982
STEJSKAL, V., VALÁŠEK, M. Kinematics and dynamics of machinery. Marcel Dekker, Inc. 1996. ISBN 0-8247-9731-0
Elearning
Classification of course in study plans
Type of course unit
Lecture
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- Introduction (multi-body formalism and other technologies), basic types of models
- Basic modeling elements and modeling process – definition of bodies, kinematic constraints, force effects
- Basic modeling elements and the modeling process – motion generators, sensors
- Coordinate systems, methods of determining position and orientation
- Closed kinematic chains - the problem of redundant coordinates
- Numerical solution – system of nonlinear equations
- Numerical solution – system of differential equations
- Number of degrees of freedom - influence on the way the mechanism is modeled
- Types of analyses
- Modeling the virtual environment
- Creation of scenarios
- Virtual test - implementation
- Virtual test - analysis
Computer-assisted exercise
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- Introduction to the ADAMS software environment
- Basic modeling elements in MBS
- Tools for parameterization of models
- Creating a complete model in ADAMS/View
- Simulation, parameterization, analysis of results
- Customization of the user environment, automation of simulations and DOE
- Introduction to ADAMS/Car
- Simulation of subsystems on test beds
- Driving simulation of a complete vehicle
- Introduction to CarMaker software
- Creation of scenarios and their simulation
- Modification of vehicle parameters and evaluation of results
- Submitting and consulting the results of separate tasks
Elearning