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Suspension Kinematic Analysis of UTeM’s FV Malaysia Electric Vehicle Racing Car


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15866/ireme.v10i4.8626

Abstract


The purpose of this paper is to investigate the kinematic performance of students’ racing car, namely UTeM’s FV Malaysia Electric Vehicle. An elasto-kinematic analysis approach is used to predict the car’s performance during straight line drive and curvature drive. Two suspension design factors involved in this analysis are toe and camber. The kinematic analysis is iterated using the multibody dynamics simulation. The suspension performance is then compared to the standard SLA suspension. The result shows that the front suspension design does not follow the good C shaped toe and camber curves for the SLA suspension type. However, the suspension design of the rear suspension performs well as it follows the good SLA performance curve.
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Suspension Kinematic; Multibody Dynamics Analysis; Suspension Design Factor

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