EDVTS

EDVTS (Engineering Dynamics Vehicle Trailer Simulator) is a simulation of the response of a vehicle-trailer system to driver braking and steering inputs. The user provides a set of initial conditions (position aand velocity) and driver inputs. EDVTS determines how the vehicle and trailer respond to those inputs by generating the path, velocity acceleration, tire forces and other data as a function of time.

EDVTS is a 4 degree-of-freedom (yaw plane) analysis; suspension effects are ignored, but quasistatic load transfers are calculated using current forward and lateral acceleration. EDSVS incorporates a powerful, new tire-terrain interaction model that allows vehicle motion to be simulated on 3D surfaces.

Terry Day

President