Improvement of driving safety using design and simulation

In the Concept Phase the development targets regarding Handling and Ride Comfort have to be settled with the application requirements as there are modularity, low loading height, low weight, reduced assembly and operating costs by adequate packaging. The full vehicle model created from packaging data will be evaluated by design and simulation. Optimizations can be verified by a Digital Mock Up. The ADAMS modeled full vehicle model was verified according the measuring data of a reference vehicle tested on the company's testing ground. This modified simulation model was used for various maneuvers like threshold crossing, stochastic excitation, step steer, single lane change. Results of the simulation were vertical acceleration, roll angle and comfort value in z-direction relative to those of the reference model.