Evaluation of the adjoint sensitivity analysis for the identification of multibody system parameters

In the context of multibody simulation (MBS) system parameter identification within acceptable time can be challenging. One main difficulty is the huge amount of degrees of freedom in multibody systems and therefore the large number of dependent variables. The present work deals with the evaluation of different approaches that can be applied to typical parameter identification problems in MBS. A very powerful possibility is given by the adjoint sensitivity analysis that allows to reduce the computation effort dramatically. (© 2014 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)