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This 6-week course teaches machine dynamics and modeling of vehicles using MATLAB. Students will learn to model vehicles as single and multi-degree of freedom systems, derive equations of motion, and solve them analytically and numerically in MATLAB. The course covers topics such as free, forced, and base excitation of systems. Students will learn basic and advanced MATLAB skills and how to present results through animations. Prerequisites include solid mechanics and linear algebra fundamentals. The course aims to provide skills to design vehicle suspensions using MATLAB tools.

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asset-v1-RWTHx+MD101x+2T2021a+type@asset+block@Syllabus Machine Dynamics With MATLAB

This 6-week course teaches machine dynamics and modeling of vehicles using MATLAB. Students will learn to model vehicles as single and multi-degree of freedom systems, derive equations of motion, and solve them analytically and numerically in MATLAB. The course covers topics such as free, forced, and base excitation of systems. Students will learn basic and advanced MATLAB skills and how to present results through animations. Prerequisites include solid mechanics and linear algebra fundamentals. The course aims to provide skills to design vehicle suspensions using MATLAB tools.

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Machine Dynamics with MATLAB

Learn the basics of machine dynamics and use them to model, simulate and analyze
the behavior of a car with the powerful tools provided by The MathWorks.

ABOUT THIS COURSE


This course will introduce you to a broad range of methodologies used in the field of
machine dynamics. You will learn how to model a vehicle using the fundamentals of
mechanics. You will get a deep understanding of the equations of motion and how to
solve them using the powerful tools of The MathWorks. Eventually, you will gain the
ability to analyze and interpret the computational results in order to optimize your design.
To get the most out of your time the course is subdivided into six weeks, each consists of
lectures, tutorials and exercises. During lectures, you will get all the theoretical
background of machine dynamics. Tutorials will teach you the basics of the used The
MathWorks products and exercises will merge your theoretical knowledge with the
practical use of the software into an exciting application.
You will learn how to model a vehicle by a one and a two degree of freedom system.
These systems could be base excited, force excited or not excited, they could be
damped or undamped and their mathematical representation could be solved
analytically, by state space representation or by solving the differential equation itself.
Therefore, if you ever wondered how to design a vehicle suspension using the powerful
tools of The MathWorks, I highly recommend you to attend to this course.

PREREQUISITES
This course requires basics of solid mechanics and linear algebra and a vague
understanding of linear differential equations of second order.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
 Basic and advanced MATLAB skills
 Define a sensible modelling depth
 Derive equations of motion for different models
 Solve the equations of motion using different approaches
 Presentation of results using animations

INSTRUCTOR
Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h. c. Burkhard Corves is institute director of the Institute of
Mechanism Theory, Machine Dynamics and Robotics since 2000. He is teaching
Machine Dynamics at RWTH Aachen University for 18 years and within his scientific
career, he published over 300 papers and was chair of different conferences such as the
EuCoMeS 2018 held in Aachen. During his industrial carrier, he developed and analyzed
several machines regarding their dynamic behavior.
Jan-Lukas Archut M.Sc. received his Master‘s degree with specialization on Automotive
Engineering at RWTH Aachen University in 2018. Afterwards he started his scientific
career at the Institute of Mechanism Theory, Machine Dynamics and Robotics. His
research focus is on multibody dynamics and vibration analysis.
Martin Lankers M.Sc. received his Master‘s degree with specialization on Research and
Development at RWTH Aachen University in 2014. Afterwards he started his scientific
career at the Institute of Mechanism Theory, Machine Dynamics and Robotics. In 2019
he finished his work there and switched to industry.

SCHEDULE AND DEADLINES


Over 6 weeks, you will learn the necessary steps to model, simulate and analyze the
dynamics of a car using The Mathworks products. Each week you will listen to Professor
Corves’ video lectures, which are concluded by a couple of recap questions. In addition,
you will get several tutorials about the functionalities of The Mathworks products. The
third part of each week consists of exercises which present the application of the theory
from the lectures and the functionalities from the tutorials. A hands on coding example
concludes every exercise. The recap questions and the coding examples are used to
trace your progress. During Week 1 and Week 2 all recap questions and exercises are
not graded. This gives you the chance to take part in it and get a feeling of how the
course is structured. From Week 3 on, all tasks are graded and available for verified
learners only.
Each week’s content and tasks will be released on Mondays at 08:00 UTC time. In the
following, you will find an overview over the different topics:
Week1: Basics of oscillation (ungraded)
Definition of important parameters of an oscillation. Introduction to the methods of
modelling and discussion about modelling depth. Derivation of an equation of motion of a
translational one degree of freedom system.
Start date: 07 Jun 2021
Week2: Discrete systems with one degree of freedom and its eigen behavior
(ungraded)
Analytical solution of an equation of motion and animation of the results. Analysis of
three typical cases of eigen behavior. Introduction to state space representation and
numerical solution of an equation of motion. Getting started with Simulink.
Start date: 14 Jun 2021
Week3: Discrete systems with one degree of freedom with forced excitation
(graded)
Description of different types of excitation. Derivation and solution of an equation of
motion with frequency dependent force excitation and frequency independent force
excitation, respectively. Extension of the model to base excitation and explanation and
development of effective vibration insulation.
Start date: 21 Jun 2021
Week4: Discrete systems with multiple degrees of freedom and its eigen behavior
(graded)
Derivation of a system of equations of motion which describes vertical dynamics and
pitch motion. Analytical solution of this system and discussion of the homogeneous
solution. Analyzes of three typical cases of motion.
Start date: 28 Jun 2021
Week5: Discrete systems with multiple degrees of freedom and its eigen behavior
and with forced excitation (graded)
Transfer of equations into state space representation and into a Simulink model.
Application of frequency independent and frequency dependent force excitation to the
system of equations of motion.
Start date: 05 Jul 2021
Week6: Discrete systems with multiple degrees of freedom with forced excitation
(graded)
Adaption of the model to base excitation. Development of a vibration absorber.
Start date: 12 Jul 2021

TIME COMMITMENT
This course runs over a total of 7 weeks. You will need to spend approximately 10-12
hours per week. This includes:
 Watching the lecture, tutorials and exercise videos
 Completing the Recap Questions
 Completing the coding examples

GRADING
At the end of the course, you get the opportunity to purchase a certificate if you have
accomplished more than 60% of the points.
DISCUSSION FORUM
Like other courses on edX, we are offering a discussion forum. This is the place to ask
questions and share thoughts and we highly encourage you to participate and help each
other out. A moderator from the course team will administer the forum, but the main goal
is for the students to help each other with questions – that way you will learn the fastest!
Rules and guidelines on how to use the Discussion Forum are provided in the forum
itself.
ACADEMIC HONOR CODE
By participating in this course, you pledge to follow the edX honor code
https://www.edx.org/edx-terms-service. Explicitly, we expect you to be a diligent student
and contribute to the course. We believe it is not too hard to achieve a good grade when
participating regularly and you will learn a lot about the topic at hand. We put a lot of
effort in creating a great course for you and highly appreciate your feedback and
suggestions!

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