Course detail

Virtual Prototypes and Virtual Enviroment

FSI-QVQ Acad. year: 2025/2026 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

doc. Ing. Petr Porteš, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Automotive Engineering

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

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Syllabus


  1. Introduction (multi-body formalism and other technologies), basic types of models

  2. Basic modeling elements and modeling process – definition of bodies, kinematic constraints, force effects

  3. Basic modeling elements and the modeling process – motion generators, sensors

  4. Coordinate systems, methods of determining position and orientation

  5. Closed kinematic chains – the problem of redundant coordinates

  6. Numerical solution – system of nonlinear equations

  7. Numerical solution – system of differential equations

  8. Number of degrees of freedom – influence on the way the mechanism is modeled

  9. Types of analyses

  10. Modeling the virtual environment

  11. Creation of scenarios

  12. Virtual test – implementation

  13. Virtual test – analysis

Computer-assisted exercise

26 hours, compulsory

Syllabus


  1. Introduction to the ADAMS software environment

  2. Basic modeling elements in MBS

  3. Tools for parameterization of models

  4. Creating a complete model in ADAMS/View

  5. Simulation, parameterization, analysis of results

  6. Customization of the user environment, automation of simulations and DOE

  7. Introduction to ADAMS/Car

  8. Simulation of subsystems on test beds

  9. Driving simulation of a complete vehicle

  10. Introduction to CarMaker software

  11. Creation of scenarios and their simulation

  12. Modification of vehicle parameters and evaluation of results

  13. Submitting and consulting the results of separate tasks