Echo Framework Enables Ride & Handling Target Definition
Client
Confidential
Industry
Automotive
As part of a vehicle dynamics development program, Echo — Outrigo framework for robust simulation — was deployed to establish and validate the ride and handling performance targets for a new vehicle platform.
Understanding the challenge
The project required a robust and traceable process to define chassis system parameters and ensure that handling performance, comfort, and stability objectives were met early in the development cycle, reducing reliance on costly prototype testing.
Solution
Using Echo, engineers carried out an integrated workflow for vehicle dynamics simulation and analysis, incorporating multibody suspension performance evaluation and chassis system target definition. The framework allowed rapid iteration and data-driven tuning of the suspension K&C characteristics, spring and damper rates, bushing stiffnesses, and anti-roll bar (ARB) characteristics to align with vehicle-level performance goals.
Results
The deployment of Echo enabled a structured and repeatable approach to ride and handling target definition, improving development efficiency and ensuring strong correlation between simulation targets and expected physical behaviour. This established a solid foundation for subsequent hardware validation and tuning phases.
