• Motor vehicle dynamics (Genta)
• Motorcycle dynamics (Cossalter)
• Handbook of driving simulation for engineering, medicine, and psychology (Fischer et al.)
Learning Objectives
The aim of the course is to facilitate students in their process of developing a thorough understanding of the various factors that are relevant to the realm of road vehicle testing. The course will improve the ability to learn from the literature (what is the aim? What was the method? What are the findings? How do they translate to real life?), and to develop a critical approach to address the following questions:
• How to test vehicle behaviour?
• How to investigate driver behaviour (interaction vehicle-driver-environment)?
• How to validate vehicle or driver models?
The course will transmit the following knowledge:
• Knowledge and understanding of the realm of ground vehicles with focus to the kinematic and dynamic aspects of two- and four-wheeled vehicles.
• Knowledge and understanding of methods for designing and executing complex experiments.
The course will train on the following skills:
• Ability to apply knowledge and understanding in the selection and use of appropriate equipment, tools, procedures and methods, with adequate awareness of their potential and limitations.
• Ability to design and execute complex experiments, also involving advanced instrumentation and software.
• Ability to conduct an experiment, individually and as members of a group, with adequate understanding of the context of engineering problems and of the interdisciplinary implications that characterize the disciplines of mechanical engineering.
• Ability to communicate and transfer knowledge, understanding, findings, ideas, problems and solutions to specialist and non-specialist interlocutors.
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge on vehicle dynamics
Teaching Methods
The course will be delivered both in the classroom, through traditional lectures, seminars, and flipped classroom activities, and in the lab, via demonstrations and experiments.
Further information
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Type of Assessment
The exam consists of three tests:
• a progress oral exam, in the form of a short presentation of one topic assigned during the course;
• a group work consisting in the design and completion of an experimental test;
• a final oral exam on the theoretical elements of the course and on the experimental activities conducted in the lab.