Citation

Pudlo P, Ait El Menceur MO, Lepoutre FX, Gorce P. Int. J. Veh. Des. 2011; 55(2-3-4): 97-118.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Inderscience Publishers)

DOI

10.1504/IJVD.2011.040578

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This paper proposes a four-step method for simulating the car-entering movement for variably dimensioned vehicles: build an adapted movement database; identify and characterize the car-entering movement strategies and sub-strategies; simulate the trajectories of the characteristic points for a new vehicle; compute the joint angles and the pelvis orientation and simulate the car-entering movement for a new vehicle. The method is validated on an experimental vehicle. In spite of the differences between the measured movement and the simulated one for the new vehicle, the same sub-strategy is adopted in both movements. Trials are proposed to improve the simulation.