Mazunova L.N., Belyakov V.V, Erofeeva L.N., Bushueva M. E., Lazarevich S.V., Shetulova T.G. Application of the Methodology for Calculating the Integral Mobility Index in Order to Improve the Quality of Ground Transportation and Technological Facilities

DOI: 10.18503/1995-2732-2025-23-2-166-175

Abstract

Assessing the quality of complex technical products is a time-consuming task, which becomes more complicated when an assessment needs to be obtained at the design or modernization stage. The integral mobility index can play the role of a quality measure for automotive equipment. The term “mobility” in the works of Professor V.V. Belyakov is interpreted as characterizing the ability to perform the task assigned to the transport and technological machine with optimal adaptability to the operating conditions and technical condition of the machine itself. In previous works authors demonstrated the development and application of an algorithm for calculating the integral mobility index for transport of various operational and functional purposes. The aim of this work is to develop and apply a methodology for evaluating and improving the mobility of transport and technological machines based on the obtained algorithm for multi-criteria quality assessment, which involves the decomposition of an integral property into the simplest components, and then aggregation of empirical indicators by means of additive convolution, taking into account the weighting coefficients of the criteria. The algorithm was implemented in the Matlab Simulink simulation environment. The article shows the result of applying the obtained methodology, analyzes the possibility of increasing mobility by making changes to the design of transport and technological facilities and complexes. The wheeled snowmobile “Вея ЗВМ-39083” was taken as an object for research. As a result, threshold values of individual criteria were obtained, which make it possible to increase the value of the integral mobility index to a predetermined level. The developed methodology can form the basis of a product quality management system at the design stage of automotive equipment.

Keywords

quality, mobility, transport and technological machine, ground transport and technological means, automotive equipment, integral mobility indicator, weighting coefficients, multi-criteria quality assessment, Matlab Simulink

For citation

Mazunova L.N., Belyakov V.V, Erofeeva L.N., Bushueva M. E., Lazarevich S.V., Shetulova T.G. Application of the Methodology for Calculating the Integral Mobility Index in Order to Improve the Quality of Ground Transportation and Technological Facilities and Complexes at the Development Stage. Vestnik Magnitogorskogo Gosudarstvennogo Tekhnicheskogo Universiteta im. G.I. Nosova [Vestnik of Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University]. 2025, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 166-175. https://doi.org/10.18503/1995-2732-2025-23-2-166-175

Larisa N. Mazunova – Senior teacher, Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University named after R.E. Alekseev, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Email: matematixx@mail.ru. ORCID 0000-0003-3262-8348

Vladimir V. Belyakov – DrSc (Eng.), Professor, Head of the Department of Research and Innovation Works, Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University named after R.E. Alekseev, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Email: nauka@nntu.ru. ORCID 0000-0003-0203-9403

Larisa N. Erofeeva – PhD (Physico-Mathematical Sciences), Associate Professor, Head of Department of Higher Mathematics, Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University named after R.E. Alekseev, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Email: erofeevaln@mail.ru. ORCID 0000-0001-6535-1459

Marina E. Bushueva – PhD (Eng.), Associate professor, Dean of the FP-UT and DL, Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University named after R.E. Alekseev, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Email: bme@nntu.ru. ORCID 0000-0002-0071-2417

Svetlana V. Lazarevich – PhD (Philological Sciences), Associate professor, Head of Department of Foreign Languages, Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University named after R.E. Alekseev, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Email: s.lazarevich@nntu.ru. ORCID 0000-0001-6950-0327

Tatiana G. Shetulova – PhD (Philological Sciences), Associate professor, Associate professor of Department of Foreign Languages, Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University named after R.E. Alekseev, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Email: dmitriy3057@yandex.ru. ORCID 0009-0003-4770-7150

1. Faskhiev H.A. Ensuring product competitiveness at the development stage. Vestnik Ufimskogo gosudarstvennogo aviatsionnogo tekhnicheskogo universiteta [Vestnik of Ufa State Aviation Technical University], 2012;16(5(50)):173-184. (In Russ.)

2. Faskhiev H.A., Krahmaleva A.V. Car quality assessment methodology. Ekonomicheskoe vozrozhdenie Rossii [The economic revival of Russia]. 2006;(2(8)):57-62. (In Russ.)

3. Faskhiev H. A. Intellectual support for ranking objects by competitiveness. Vestnik Ufimskogo gosudarstvennogo aviatsionnogo tekhnicheskogo universiteta [Vestnik of Ufa State Aviation Technical University], 2014;18(3(64)):210-224. (In Russ.)

4. Faskhiev H.A., Krahmaleva A.V. Car quality assessment methodology. Marketing v Rossii i za rubezhom [Marketing in Russia and abroad], 2005;4:86-100. (In Russ.)

5. Pliev I.A., Verzhbitskiy A.N. Methodology for assessing the quality of the technical level of a multipurpose MTS. Avtomobilnaya promyshlennost [The automotive industry], 1999;(11):34 - 36. (In Russ.)

6. Pliev I.A. Assessment of the technical level of multi-purpose vehicle families based on the hierarchy analysis method. Zhurnal avtomobilnyh inzhenerov [Journal of Automotive Engineers], 2010;(3(62)):46-49. (In Russ.)

7. Pliev I.A. Assessment of the technical level of multi-purpose vehicle families based on the hierarchy analysis method. Zhurnal avtomobilnyh inzhenerov [Journal of Automotive Engineers], 2010;(5(64)):50-54. (In Russ.)

8. Mazunova L.N., Belyakov V.V., Erofeeva L.N., Bushueva M.E. Review of approaches to assessing the quality and mobility of automotive equipment based on multicriteria quality assessment methods. Vestnik Magnitogorskogo gosudarstvennogo tekhnicheskogo universiteta im. G.I. Nosova [Vestnik of Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University], 2023;21(3):170-179. (In Russ.)

9. Belyakov V.V., Bushueva M.E., Golyshev E.Yu. Assessment of mobility of transport and technological machines. Novgorod: NSTU. 10.01.02. №28-В 2002.

10. Belyakov V.V., Bushueva M.E., Golyshev E.Yu. Assessment of mobility of transport and technological machines. Problemy kachestva i ekspluatatsii avtotraktornyh sredstv: materialy II mezhdunarodnoy nauchno-tekhnicheskoy konferentsii [Problems of quality and operation of motor vehicles: Proceedings of the II International Scientific and Technical Conference]. Penza: PSUAC, 2002, p. 1, pp. 23-31. (In Russ.)

11. Belyakov V.V., Bushueva M.E., Golyshev E.Yu. Assessment of mobility of transport and technological machines. Kolesnye mashiny: sb. tr. [Wheeled vehicles: Proceedings]. Moscow: Bauman MSTU, 2003, pp. 29-30. (In Russ.)

12. Belyakov V.V., Gulyaev Yu.V. Mobility and competitiveness of transport and technological machines. Izvestiya Akademii inzhenernyh nauk RF im. akad. A.M. Prohorova. Transportno-tekhnologicheskie mashiny i kompleksy [Proceedings of the Academy of Engineering Sciences of the Russian Federation named after Academician A.M. Prokhorov. Transport and technological machines and complexes]. Moscow, N.Novgorod: NSTU, 2003, vol. 5, pp. 3-25. (In Russ.)

13. Belyakov V.V. Assessment of mobility of transport and technological machines. AUTO-NN-2000: materialy mezhdunarodnoy nauchno-tekhnicheskoy konferentsii [AUTO-NN-2000: Proceedings of the International scientific and technical conference]. N. Novgorod: NSTU, 2000, pp. 339-357. (In Russ.)

14. Belyakov V.V., Belyaev A.M., Bushueva M.E. The concept of mobility of ground transportation and technological machines. Trudy NGTU im. R.E. Alekseeva [Proceedings of the NSTU named after R.E. Alekseev], 2013;(3):145-174. (In Russ.)

15. Belyakov V.V., Bushueva M.E., Sagunov V.I. Mnogokriterialnaya optimizatsiya v zadachah podvizhnosti, konkurentosposobnosti avtotraktornoy tekhniki i diagnostiki slozhnyh tekhnicheskih system: ucheb. posobie [Multicriteria optimization in problems of mobility, competitiveness of automotive equipment and diagnostics of complex technical systems: textbook]. N. Novgorod: NSTU, 2001, 271 p. (In Russ.)

16. Belyakov V.V. Multi-criteria assessment of the mobility of tractor equipment. INTERSTROYMEKH-2001: tr. mezhdunarodnoy nauchno-tekhnicheskoy konferentsii [INTERSTROYMEKH-2001: Proceedings of the International Scientific and Technical Conference]. Saint Petersburg: SPbSTU, 2001, pp. 95-99. (In Russ.)

17. Мazunova L.N., Belyakov V.V., Makarov V.S., Мazunova A.P., Erofeeva L.N., Bushueva M.E. Transformation of qualitative characteristics of motor vehicles into quantitative indicators using the hierarchy analysis method. Trudy NGTU im. R.E. Alekseeva [Proceedings of NSTU named after R.E. Alekseev], 2023;(1(140)):97-106. (In Russ.)

18. Мazunova L.N., Belyakov V.V., Makarov V.S., Bushueva M.E., Erofeeva L.N., Anikin A.A, Naumov V.N. Comparative analysis of methods of multi-criteria assessment of competitiveness and mobility of automotive equipment, taking into account the weight significance of characteristics. Trudy NGTU im. R.E. Alekseeva [Proceedings of NSTU named after R.E. Alekseev], 2022;(1(136)):125-136. (In Russ.)

19. Mazunova L.N., Belyakov V.V., Erofeeva L.N., Makarov V.S., Bushueva M.E. A method for calculating the integral mobility index of wheeled all-terrain vehicles based on the multi-criteria optimization method. Nauchno-tekhnicheskiy vestnik Bryanskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta [Scientific and Technical Bulletin of Bryansk State University], 2022;(3):211-222. (In Russ.)

20. Mazunova L.N., Dubkova M.A., Belyakov V.V., Bushueva M.E., Makarov V.S., Erofeeva L.N. Development of a methodology for calculating the mobility index for passenger car mobility based on the application of multi-criteria optimization. Trudy NGTU im. R.E. Alekseeva [Proceedings of NSTU named after R.E. Alekseev], 2021;(2(133)):102-112. (In Russ.)

21. Kravets V.N. Teoriya avtomobilya: Uchebnoe posobie [The theory of the car: Textbook]. N. Novgorod: NSTU, 2007, 368 p. (In Russ.)