Flexible Multibody Dynamics for Design Optimisation and Parameter Identification: With Application on Reciprocating Mechanisms

To remain competitive, manufacturers need a strong commitment to innovation. Mechatronics allows to optimize the performance and reliability of equipment. It allows manufacturers to combine quality, reliability, energy efficiency with ever increasing production speeds. Due to the absence of sufficiently reliable knowledge about the dynamical behavior of machines this is so far not prevalent. Knowledge of system dynamics requires a reliable models, including targeted measurements for proper identification of the model parameters and certain critical system states. However, conventional measurement systems known in this area, face a number of problems: # Accurate, highly dynamic sensors are often very expensive, and require a complex and time-consuming calibrations. # Many quantities are not or hardly measurable directly, due to difficult access or difficult measuring conditions e.g. due to temperature, oil ... As a consequence there is a need for techniques that extract more information from available measurement systems by exploiting a model-based techniques.status: publishe