Course detail
Virtual Prototypes and Virtual Enviroment
FSI-QVQ Acad. year: 2024/2025 Summer semester
Virtual prototypes created using so-called multi-body software play a significant role in today's product development process. This software greatly enhances the efficiency of engineering work and reduces the financial demands of development. The subject focuses on the use of these tools in the design and testing of both traditional and autonomous vehicles. Students will acquire the necessary knowledge to independently create virtual prototypes, gain an overview of the problems that can be solved using multi-body software, understand the data required to create a model, and understand what results they can get. For the practical part of the course, software that is among the most significant and widely used in the automotive industry is chosen.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
6
Supervisor
Department
Entry knowledge
Matrix calculus. Basic knowledge of numerical mathematics and technical mechanics, kinematics, dynamics.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Attendance at seminars is obligatory, checked by a teacher. The way of compensation of absence is solved individually with a course provider.
Aims
The aim of the course is to make students familiar with theoretical and practical knowledge of multi-body software. They will learn of multi-body software and its development trends.
Students will have a clear idea of which problems are possible to solve with the multi-body software, what data are necessary, what outputs they are able to get. Students will also acquire the necessary knowledge to enable them to independently create multi-body models using software tools.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme N-AAE-P: Advanced Automotiv Engineering, Master's, compulsory
Programme N-ADI-P: Automotive and Material Handling Engineering, Master's, compulsory
Programme C-AKR-P: , Lifelong learning
specialization CLS: , elective
Type of course unit
Lecture
26 hours, optionally
Syllabus
- Introduction (multi-body formalism and other technologies), basic types of models
- Basic modeling elements and modeling process – definition of bodies, kinematic constraints, force effects
- Basic modeling elements and the modeling process – motion generators, sensors
- Coordinate systems, methods of determining position and orientation
- Closed kinematic chains – the problem of redundant coordinates
- Numerical solution – system of nonlinear equations
- Numerical solution – system of differential equations
- Number of degrees of freedom – influence on the way the mechanism is modeled
- Types of analyses
- Modeling the virtual environment
- Creation of scenarios
- Virtual test – implementation
- Virtual test – analysis
Computer-assisted exercise
26 hours, compulsory
Syllabus
- Introduction to the ADAMS software environment
- Basic modeling elements in MBS
- Tools for parameterization of models
- Creating a complete model in ADAMS/View
- Simulation, parameterization, analysis of results
- Customization of the user environment, automation of simulations and DOE
- Introduction to ADAMS/Car
- Simulation of subsystems on test beds
- Driving simulation of a complete vehicle
- Introduction to CarMaker software
- Creation of scenarios and their simulation
- Modification of vehicle parameters and evaluation of results
- Submitting and consulting the results of separate tasks