A Vehicle Dynamics Model for Driving Simulators
Jorge Gómez Fernández · 2012
Driving simulators play an important role in research concerning mainly human factors and the development of new advanced driver assistance systems. Since the human body is a very sensitive “machine”, driving simulator experiences must be as close as possible to reality, in order to conduct simulator experiments that generate accurate results, so they can be extrapolated to real driving situations. One part of the driving simulator that influences the driver perception is the vehicle dynamics model. This is the part of the simulator software that calculates the physics and motion of a real vehicle according to the driver inputs and environmental conditions. In this Master’s thesis, a new vehicle dynamics model with ten degrees of freedom has been developed, using Modelica ® as a programming language. The model is specially designed for Real-time applications, mainly driving simulators. The model is intended to calculate the motion of a passenger vehicle when driving in normal conditions, representing real vehicle behaviour in public roads, since this is a common