Robust design for improved vehicle handling under a range of maneuver conditions

Wei Chen; Raman Garimella; Nestor Michelena

doi:10.1115/DETC99/DAC-8580

Robust design for improved vehicle handling under a range of maneuver conditions

Wei Chen^*, Raman Garimella, Nestor Michelena

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Mechanical Engineering

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Abstract

In this article, a robust design procedure is applied to achieve improved vehicle handling perfonnance as an integral part of simulation-based vehicle design. Recent developments in the field of robust design optimization and the techniques for creating global approximations of design behaviors are applied to improve the computational efficiency of robust vehicle design built upon sophisticated vehicle dynamic simulations. Our approach is applied to the design of a M916A1 6-wheel tractor / M870A2 3-axle semi-trailer. The results illustrate that the proposed procedure is effective for preventing the rollover of ground vehicles as well as for identifying a design that is not only optimal against the worst maneuver condition but is also robust with respect to a range of maneuver inputs. Furthermore, a comparison is made between a statistical approach and a bi-level optimization approach in terms of their effectiveness in solving robust design problems.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	25th Design Automation Conference
Publisher	American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Pages	1331-1341
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Electronic)	9780791819715
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC99/DAC-8580
State	Published - 1999
Event	ASME 1999 Design Engineering Technical Conferences, DETC 1999 - Las Vegas, United States Duration: Sep 12 1999 → Sep 16 1999

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference
Volume	1

Conference

Conference	ASME 1999 Design Engineering Technical Conferences, DETC 1999
Country/Territory	United States
City	Las Vegas
Period	9/12/99 → 9/16/99

Funding

The support from NSF through grant DM11 9624363 for the development of Robust Concept Exploration Method is gratefully acknowledged. We are grateful for the contract with the Tank Anny Command (TACOM) on Advanced Vehicle Systems Design and the support from the Automotive Research Center (ARC). We thank LMS International, Belgium, for the use of OPTIMUS^ in creating response surface models.

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Mechanical Engineering
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Computer Science Applications
Modeling and Simulation

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Chen, W, Garimella, R & Michelena, N 1999, Robust design for improved vehicle handling under a range of maneuver conditions. in 25th Design Automation Conference. Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference, vol. 1, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), pp. 1331-1341, ASME 1999 Design Engineering Technical Conferences, DETC 1999, Las Vegas, United States, 9/12/99. https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC99/DAC-8580

Robust design for improved vehicle handling under a range of maneuver conditions. / Chen, Wei; Garimella, Raman; Michelena, Nestor.
25th Design Automation Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1999. p. 1331-1341 (Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference; Vol. 1).

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