An overview on vehicle dynamics

Abstract

As a basic theory of the vehicle industry, the vehicle dynamics plays an important role in the development of the vehicle industry. In the past decades, great progress was made in the theory and experiment of vehicle dynamics. This article summarizes recent advances in vehicle dynamics. In vehicle dynamics, the vehicle body (sprung mass), the suspension component (spring and damper) and tire (unsprung mass) are essential parts of the system. The modeling approaches and characteristics of the vehicle, tire and driver model with the respect to handling and driving dynamics are summarized in the paper. The important research issues about the vehicle-pavement coupled dynamics are discussed in detail. Several problems and directions for the further studying in vehicle dynamics are pointed out.