Determination of the parameters of the curvilinear movement of vehicles

Abstract

Today, the creation of new vehicles is impossible without computer modeling. Modern vehicles have numerous electronic systems that increase its traffic safety, comfort, and route planning management. Reliable operation of all systems is achieved by using an accurate dynamic model of the vehicle to assess safety and the possibility of movement along specified trajectories. Creating an accurate dynamic vehicle model requires correct initial parameters. When modeling the curvilinear movement of motor vehicles, such parameters as the coefficients of resistance to lateral sliding of tires and the angles of sliding of axles, which are mainly determined on test benches in laboratory conditions, are important to obtain the adequacy of the object under study. However, quite often it is impossible to obtain reliable information from tire manufacturers or testing laboratories, which ultimately affects the adequacy of modeling the parameters of vehicle movement. A method is proposed for determining the design parameters of tires using primary information sensors, which are sensors of angular and linear velocities, linear accelerations, rotation angles of controlled wheels and an on-board information processing device. The advantages of this method are that it allows real-time measurement of the angles of the axles and the coefficients of resistance to the lateral withdrawal of the axles when the vehicle is moving at an arbitrary speed along a trajectory of variable curvature. This method can be used to create an accurate dynamic model in the study of the controllability and stability of the vehicle, as well as an integral part of the vehicle dynamics control system.