Generalized Vehicle System Dynamics: Theoretical Framework and Comprehensive Overview

doi:10.3901/JME.2025.18.190

Abstract

Abstract: Vehicle dynamics theory is fundamental to automotive design and control. With the rapid development of automotive electrification and intelligence, novel chassis configurations characterized by distribution, modularity, and redundancy have disrupted traditional boundaries of vehicle motion functions. The integration of onboard, roadside, and connected intelligent sensing information has transformed vehicle systems into cyber-physical systems. Existing vehicle dynamics theories, however, struggle to uniformly characterize the dynamics of multi-mode chassis structures and fail to elucidate the mechanical interactions between vehicles and multi-source external environmental information, highlighting critical limitations in model generality and environmental information integration. To address these issues, a generalized vehicle system dynamics framework is proposed. This framework abstracts chassis constraints, inter-vehicle interactions, and information exchange as generalized internal forces within the vehicle system, thereby constructing a coupled dynamics system encompassing mechanical, electronic, and informational multiphysics interactions. Furthermore, it enriches the traditional “modeling-estimation-control” theoretical paradigm, forming a unified theoretical framework to guide the chassis design and coordinated dynamic control of high-performance vehicles.

Key words: generalized vehicle system dynamics, multi-functionality chassis, modeling-estimation-control, cyber-physical systems, multi-domain coupling dynamics

CLC Number:

U461

YIN Guodong. Generalized Vehicle System Dynamics: Theoretical Framework and Comprehensive Overview[J]. Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 2025, 61(18): 190-203.

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