MODERN TOOLS FOR VEHICLE DEVELOPMENT

The development of vehicles is constantly advancing, therefore, it is required to have more sophisticated tools for the development of a complete vehicle or its individual parts. This article describes modern tools used at the Institute of Automotive Engineering in Brno for vehicle development, i.e. simulation multibody software MSC ADAMS/Car or tools for MIL and HIL testing of mechatronic systems. Furthermore, the article presents tools enabling the use of multibody models for analysing data obtained from driving tests and software for processing and analysing the measured or calculated data obtained during all phases of vehicle development.