Modeling of commercial vehicles for vehicle dynamics control development

Abstract

Commercial vehicle modeling strategies are presented in this paper. Models created are suitable for vehicle dynamics control development, computationally efficient, and well-structured. Important feature of the models is that they can easily support a huge number of possible vehicle variants with different geometrical and structural requirements. Model is built-up in a multi-body structure. This paper details the modeling of the vehicle frame and the suspension and gives brief insight into the tire modeling for which a brush-model approach is used. Finally, simulation results are presented.