Modeling and Simulation of Multibody Systems

Overview

What is the similarity between a car suspension, a robot, a railway vehicle and a human body? They are all complex mechanical systems composed of rigid bodies moving through articulated joints and submitted to forces and torques. Their study is the basis of the scientific field called multibody dynamics.

Whether you are an engineer designing a vehicle, a technician building a robot or setting up a prothesis, or a physiotherapist studying a human body motion, you might need to model and analyze the behavior of such multibody systems. You will learn that skill through this program.

Although an advanced program, your learning will be very progressive. It starts from the basic principles of Newtonian mechanics and then proposes to solve everyday applications of increasing complexity, using the free symbolic software Robotran (www.robotran.be) that generates the nonlinear equations in C, Python or MATLAB language.

The Modeling and Simulation of Multibody Systems programme in collaboration with Université Catholique de Louvain - LouvainX is a Professional Certificate. 

Job Outlook

• As an engineer or qualified technician, enhance your attractivity towards industries facing complex kinematic and dynamic problems e.g.: railway systems, vehicles, transmission or suspension systems, robotics, etc.
• Get skills necessary for research and development in emerging and specialized challenges involving multibody system dynamics: innovative vehicles for sustainable mobility, human rehabilitation devices, digital twin for predictive maintenance, etc.