IMPROVEMENT OF MATHEMATICAL MODELS FOR SIMULATION OF VEHICLE HANDLING. VOLUME 1. USER'S GUIDE FOR THE FIVE DEGREE OF FREEDOM MODELS

This report is composed of seven volumes: Volume 1--User's Guide for the Five Degree of Freedom Models, which contains directions on how to operate the digital programs SLABAM and SLABIM; Volume 2--Programmers' Guide for the Five Degree of Freedom Models, which is intended to provide sufficient documentation on the SLABAM and SLABIM programs as to enable them to be alltered readily; Volume 3--Technical Mannual for the Five Degree of Freedom Models, which contains information on model validation and operating costs as well as samples and analyses of simulation output; Volume 4--Users' Guide for the General Simulation; Volume 6--Programmers' Guide for the Driver Module, which is intended to provide sufficient documentation on the DRIVER MODULE as to enable it to be altered readily if necessary; Volume 7--Technical Manual for the General Simulation, which contains mathematical modelling of the vehicle and the human driver as well as differences between the APL simulation and the current one; and Volume 8--Summary Report--which lists the major objectives of the entire study: to develop an all digital vehicle simulation for handling and braking, to develop a human driver simulation for evaluating handling capabilities of closed loop vehicle-driver systems, and to investigate methods for describing the directional stability and control of automobiles applicable to nonlinear transit response.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Volumes 2-8 are HS-805 363--HS-805 371.
• Corporate Authors:

  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  College of Engineering
  Ann Arbor, MI  United States  48109

  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • MITCHELL, B
  • ABRAMS, R
  • SCOTT, R A
• Publication Date: 1979-5-30

Media Info

• Pagination: 38 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Braking; Computer programming; Computer programs; Degrees of freedom; Digital computers; Digital simulation; Drivers; Evaluation; Feedback control; Handling characteristics; Improvements; Manuals; Mathematical models; Motor vehicles; Operating costs; Simulation; Stability (Mechanics)
• Uncontrolled Terms: Digital techniques; Handling
• Subject Areas: Highways; Vehicles and Equipment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00318905
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: Final Rpt., HS-805 362
• Contract Numbers: DOT-HS-7-01715
• Files: HSL, NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Oct 27 1982 12:00AM