Theodor Ensbury
Claytex USA, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
David Briant
Claytex Services Ltd. Edmund House, Rugby Road, Leamington Spa, CV32 6EL, UK
Mike Dempsey
Claytex Services Ltd. Edmund House, Rugby Road, Leamington Spa, CV32 6EL, UK
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/ecp19157725Published in: Proceedings of the 13th International Modelica Conference, Regensburg, Germany, March 4–6, 2019
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 157:75, p. 10
Published: 2019-02-01
ISBN: 978-91-7685-122-7
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
Physical testing of new automobiles is often a lengthy and expensive process. Virtual testing of vehicles offers a much more flexible, efficient solution to testing new vehicles, whilst also providing a more consistent and easier to mange testing environment. This paper presents how the VeSyMA suite of libraries contains the necessary features required to recreate 2 typical physical proving ground tests in the virtual world. Key new features added to the VeSyMA suite to enable this are presented, namely: a new method of defining the proving ground road model using GPS and body accelerometer data, a new driver model capable of conducting a series of scheduled driving tasks (mimicking a human test driver) and new tyre contact models more suitable to typical proving ground rough roads.
