Michael T. Jones (mtjones++at++ix.netcom.com)
Tue, 22 Jun 1999 20:56:41 -0700
The US hub of driving dynamics is, not too surprisingly, the
University of Michigan. Here's a link to some work by the
Automotive Research Simulator but that's only the tip of
the ice berg.
http://www.umtri.umich.edu/erd/software/arcsim.html
I strongly recommend that you go to this site and look through
most of the links. You will find excellent work both online and
by the researchers and their past publications.
I first discovered them in 1989 when I was solving for what was
to me a major obstacle: the behavior of a truck and semi-trailer
when you back up the truck part with the wheels turned. It may
seem simple (and it may be simple if you know more math than
me ;-) but I found it difficult to work out as a finite difference
solution.
Michael "Truck-Driver" Jones
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At 10:09 AM 6/22/99 -0500, William Sherman -Visualization
wrote:
Hello,
Does anyone on the list have a simple vehicle dynamics alogorithm
for passenger cars that they are willing & able to share?
I'm working on a "toy" driving simulator application for a
VR
display, and just need to provide a car that is more or less
accurate. Inputs I'm prepared to feed to the algorithm
include
a steering offset, acceleration, brake, ground friction
coefficient,
and ground slope (is there anything else that is absolutely
necessary?).
I'll take existing code, psuedocode, a collection of algorithms,
whatever is available.
The US hub of driving dynamics is, not too surprisingly, the
University of Michigan. Here's a link to some work by the
Automotive Research Simulator but that's only the tip of
the ice berg.
http://www.umtri.umich.edu/erd/software/arcsim.html
I strongly recommend that you go to this site and look through
most of the links. You will find excellent work both online and
by the researchers and their past publications.
I first discovered them in 1989 when I was solving for what was
to me a major obstacle: the behavior of a truck and semi-trailer
when you back up the truck part with the wheels turned. It may
seem simple (and it may be simple if you know more math than
me ;-) but I found it difficult to work out as a finite difference
solution.
Michael "Truck-Driver" Jones
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