Distribution of driving force beneath wheeled vehicle with varying center of gravity

• Main Authors: Chen Zhou, Xin-Hui Liu, Wei Chen, Fei-Xiang Xu, Bing-Wei Cao
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publishing 2019-01-01
• Series: Advances in Mechanical Engineering
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1177/1687814019825591

Driving force analysis is performed on the no-spin differential and full-time all-wheel-drive vehicle; this thesis takes an automatic loading mixing vehicle as an example to introduce the compositions and working principle of the driving system. Based on the tire-ground mechanics, the model of the dynamics and the kinematics is established under the walking straight and steering conditions. According to the theoretical model, the influence of the vehicle’s gravity center on the moving system is analyzed. Co-simulation based on LMS Imagine Lab AMESim and LMS Virtual Lab Motion is performed to build the hydraulic driving system and the multi-body dynamics system models. Based on the tire-ground load environment simulation model built by 1D + 3D, various positions of the gravity center of the model are set to compare with the theoretical analysis. Various weight blocks are also added to change the location of the gravity center in the practical experiment. The conclusions that different gravity center positions lead to the change of the driving torque distribution are proved by the simulation results and experimental data.