This paper is devoted to the attitude and vibration control of spacecraft containing flexible
appendages. It entails an investigation of a passive control strategy which consists in …

This investigation is the first contribution of a two-part research work concerning the
theoretical development of a multibody approach to analyze the constrained dynamics of …

In this paper, a new analytical approach suitable for the stability analysis of multibody
mechanical systems is introduced in the framework of Lagrangian mechanics. The approach …

This paper deals with in-curve vehicle lateral behaviour and is aimed to find out which
vehicle physical characteristics affect significantly its stability. Two different analytical …

Linearizing the equations of motion of a constrained multibody system is a common need in,
for example, stability analyses. While the theory of modelling multibody systems is well …

In this paper, we study the dynamics of an idealized benchmark bicycle moving on a surface
of revolution. We employ symbolic manipulations to derive the contact constraint equations …

This paper describes the use of a bicycle model to teach multibody dynamics. The bicycle
motion equations are first obtained as a DAE system written in terms of dependent …

A new methodology for constructing stability maps (phase-plane analysis) is presented and
validated for application to complex multibody vehicle models implemented in Multibody …

Formulating the dynamics equations of a mechanical system following a multibody dynamics
approach often leads to a set of highly nonlinear differential-algebraic equations (DAEs) …

This work addresses the direct eigenanalysis of the problem that results from the
linearization of the dynamics of constrained systems about arbitrary, problem-dependent …