Vehicle model for dynamics analysis and HIL simulation

Abstract

The paper describes design mathematical model of vehicle directional dynamics. The simulation model has been designed in MATLAB/Simulink environment. The vehicle model consists of three main subsystems (vehicle body model, wheel model, tire model). Vehicle tests for evaluating performance of vehicle control devices are often time consuming, expensive, and not reproducible. The hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation is promising on this matter since it provides time- and cost-effective ways of vehicle testing with repeatability.