Gelöste Aufgaben/JUMP/Car-Body

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Scope

Car-Body

In common simulation applications - especially for full-size commercial cars - the pitch-angle of the car is assumed to be small to allow for a linearization of geometry and most parts of the equations of motion. We drop this limitation so we can do more fancy stuff with our model - like climbing steep roads or jumping across ditches.

Block Diagram.

We employ a spatial x-y coordinate system, x in horizontal, y in vertical, upwards direction. And we’ll briefly employ the z-axis as rotation direction - which is towards you following the “right-hand-rule“ for coordinate systems.

Structure

The driver controls the car's motion via the position of the "gas"-pedal, which is being translated into a torque M_W at the wheel.

This toque will change velocities and thus the position of the car. These state-variables will then create - via info - a feedback to the driver.

We’ll need to invest significant efforts in describing the kinematics of the car-motion and to derive its equations of body-motion since we do not want to limit our study on small pitch-angles of the car. Key accessory will be vectors, which map locations like the center of mass:

${\vec {r}}_{C}(t)$.

This vector has - in 2D - two coordinates $u_{1}(t),u_{2}(t)$, measured in the inertial x-y frame:

${\vec {r}}_{C}(t)={\vec {\underline {e}}}_{0}\cdot \left({\begin{array}{c}u_{1}\\u_{2}\end{array}}\right)$ with ${\vec {\underline {e}}}_{0}=\left({\vec {e}}_{x},{\vec {e}}_{y}\right)$.

representing the unit vectors spanning the x-y space. If we refer to a specific frame, we may drop the vector-notation $({\vec {.}})$ and refer to the column-matrix of coordinates $({\underline {.}})$ only, so

${\underline {r}}_{C}=\left({\begin{array}{c}u_{1}\\u_{2}\end{array}}\right)$.

We’ll also employ coordinate transformations using Euler-rotations.

The car with front-wheel drive consists of the car-body with center of mass “C“, the front wheels “A“ and the rear wheel “B“. Masses of car-body and wheel-sets are M and m respectively.The geometry of the car is described by

• a₀: the wheel base;
• a₁: longitudinal distance between center of mass and front-wheel-hub;
• a₂ = a₀ - a₁ and
• a₃: vertical distance between center of mass and front-wheel-hub (relaxed springs).

Parameter

x

Body Coordinates

y

Wheels' Coordinates.

z

Tack specification

a

Rounding the edges.

b

Contact conditions.

c

Contact angles

Wheel kinematics

Contact forces F, N

Characteristic for contact force.

Friction characteristic

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