SMARTMOBILE – AN ENVIRONMENT FOR GUARANTEED MULTIBODY MODELING AND SIMULATION

Ekaterina Auer, Wolfram Luther

2007

Abstract

Multibody modeling and simulation is important in many areas of our life from a computer game to space exploration. To automatize the process for industry and research, a lot of tools were developed, among which the program MOBILE plays a considerable role. However, such tools cannot guarantee the correctness of results, for example, due to possible errors in the underlying finite precision arithmetic. To avoid such errors and simultaneously prove the correctness of results, a number of so called validated methods were developed, which include interval, affine and Taylor form based arithmetics. In this paper, we present the recently developed multibody modeling and simulation tool SMART MOBILE based on MOBILE, which is able to guarantee the correctness of results. The use of validated methods there allows us additionally to take into account the uncertainty in measurements and study its influence on simulation. We demonstrate the main concepts and usage with the help of several mechanical systems, for which kinematical or dynamic behavior is simulated in a validated way.

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Auer E. and Luther W. (2007). SMARTMOBILE – AN ENVIRONMENT FOR GUARANTEED MULTIBODY MODELING AND SIMULATION . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO, ISBN 978-972-8865-83-2, pages 109-116. DOI: 10.5220/0001624601090116


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@conference{icinco07,
author={Ekaterina Auer and Wolfram Luther},
title={SMARTMOBILE – AN ENVIRONMENT FOR GUARANTEED MULTIBODY MODELING AND SIMULATION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,},
year={2007},
pages={109-116},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001624601090116},
isbn={978-972-8865-83-2},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,
TI - SMARTMOBILE – AN ENVIRONMENT FOR GUARANTEED MULTIBODY MODELING AND SIMULATION
SN - 978-972-8865-83-2
AU - Auer E.
AU - Luther W.
PY - 2007
SP - 109
EP - 116
DO - 10.5220/0001624601090116