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The objective of this paper is to resolve the stability problem for thenumerical integration of constrained multibody mechanical system. The dynamicequations of motion of the constrained multibody mechanical system is a mixeddifferential- algebraic equation(DAE) which contains external forces, constraintreaction forces as well as acceleration of the generalized coordinates of thesystem. In applying numerical integration methods to solve the mixeddifferential- algebraic equation, the constraint equation and its first andsecond derivatives must be satisfied. That is, the generalized coordinatesare dependent. Direct integration methods do not consider this dependency andconstraint violation occurs. To solve this problem, Baumgarte proposed aconstraint stabilization method in which a velocity term and a position termwere added in the second derivative of the constraint equation. The disadvan-tage of this method is that there is no known reliable method for selectingthe coefficients of the position and velocity term.Improper selection of thesecoefficients can lead to erroneous results.In this paper,we will use stabilityanalysis methods in digital control theory to resolve this problem. Correctchoice of the coefficients for different numerical integration methods arefound for both fixed and variable integration stepsize.
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