Advanced Vehicle Dynamics

Lecturer:

Gabriela Achtenová (gar.)

Tutor:

Gabriela Achtenová (gar.)

Supervisor:

Department of Automotive, Combustion Engine and Railway

Synopsis:

The course ?Advanced Vehicle Dynamics? is a follow-up course of ?Vehicle Dynamics?(2311067) offering a more in depth treatment of vehicle dynamics topics.

Requirements:

Syllabus of lectures:

- Tyre characteristics and non-linear vehicle performance

- Dynamic tyre behaviour

- Graphical methodologies to express vehicle dynamics performance

- Racecar dynamics

- Dynamics of articulated vehicles.

- The vehicle-driver interface

Syllabus of tutorials:

- Non-linear tyre characteristics and vehicle performance

- Performance of articulated vehicles (commercial vehicles, car-caravan)

- Path tracking and driver workload

Study Objective:

Study materials:

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2011/2012:

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Time-table for summer semester 2011/2012:

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The course is a part of the following study plans: