Theory of Vehicle Dynamics

This section describes the vehicle dynamics theory behind the models used by the OpenVD package.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Tire models
  • Linear
  • Pacejka (Magic Formula)
  • Polynomial
  • Tire comparison
• Simple vehicle models
  • Simple vehicle 3 DOF
  • Simple vehicle 4 DOF
• Articulated vehicle models
  • Articulated vehicle 4 DOF
• References