A tool for management of trim influencing parameters in road sport motorbikes

The necessity of software tools in charge of replacing physical systems to implement tests and evaluations on motorcycles constitutes a major priority in current companies’ research and development and testing departments. In particular, the ability to perform simulations and analyses on the trim of production motorbikes constitutes an important resource in terms of cost reduction and fast prototyping. The integration of easy-to-use user interfaces consists in a great improvement and benefit from the point of view of interoperability, easing communication between departments and engineers targeted to different working areas. This thesis work proposes the integration, upgrade and development of a software tool and its entire ecosystem with the aim of computing the trim of road sport motorbikes. Starting from the basic implementation of the core functions and a simple interface, the work covered the construction of a motorcycle and component database. Integrating the database with the tool, the realization of a graphical user interface (GUI) allowed to apply a user complete customization on the input motorbike model. The availability of data acquired from track tests has been exploited and the tool expanded and modified to accept and perform simulations on these data. At the same time an additional interface allowed reorganization, filtering and visualization of the acquired data. To validate the approach proposed in the end a sensitivity analysis has been carried out on the variation of some setup parameters over real input data.