PROGRESS IN INTEGRATED SYSTEM-ANALYSIS AND DESIGN SOFTWARE FOR CONTROLLED VEHICLES

This paper represents one of the results of the second Herbertov Works hop in 1992 on ''Research Issues in Automotive Integrated Chassis Cont rol Systems''. It was decided to bring together engineers who are acti vely involved in current software developments to report on the progre ss in integrated system analysis and design software for controlled ve hicles. Therefore, after mentioning some of the principal requirements for such software, the state-of-the-art is summarized. Promising rece nt research and software developments are described and the applicatio n of some of these concepts to an actively controlled vehicle with pre view is discussed. Throughout the article the ideas of concurrent anal ysis and design strategies are emphasized.