Technical Paper
Automated Methods for Converting a Non Real-time Cartesian Multi-body Vehicle Dynamics Model to a Real-time Recursive Model
2006-04-03
2006-01-1165
The United States Army Research, Development, and Engineering Command’s Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (U.S. Army RDECOM-TARDEC) laboratories is seeking to advance modeling and simulation methods used for predicting the performance of ground vehicles. TARDEC typically generates non-real-time models of its vehicles using DADS [1]: a general purpose commercial, multi-body software package based on a Cartesian coordinate formulation. TARDEC also currently uses SimCreator [2], [3] to develop real-time multi-body vehicle models. SimCreator uses recursive techniques to perform the simulations in real-time. The goal of the study presented here was to develop rapid conversion methods for translating models of DADS and other commercial multi-body software packages into SimCreator models. A procedure that can be automated was developed to convert a DADS model of a High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMVW) to a SimCreator model.
