Grey-box modeling of a motorcycle shock absorber for virtual prototyping applications

Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 894-907

  Beghi, Alessandro ^a   Liberati, Marco ^b   Mezzalira, Sergio ^a   Peron, Stivi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Aprilia Racing Department   (Italy)

Author keywords

Automotive; Grey box models; Identification; Mechanical systems; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); MOTORCYCLES; NEURAL NETWORKS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

GREY BOX MODELS; MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; MOTORCYCLE INDUSTRY; MULTIBODY SIMULATION SOFTWARE;

SHOCK ABSORBERS;

EID: 34547773158     PISSN: 1569190X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.simpat.2007.04.011     Document Type: Article

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