Technical Paper
Implementation of Driver-in-loop methodology for Virtual development of Semi-active dampers
2024-04-09
2024-01-2759
In today's rapidly evolving automotive world, reduction of 'time to market' has prime importance for a new product development. It is critical to have significant front-loading of development activities to reduce development time while achieving best in class performance targets. Driver-in-loop simulators shown significant potential for achieving it, through real time subjective feedback at very early stages of the vehicle development. Recent advances in technology of driving simulators have enabled quite accurate representation steering and handling performance, also good prediction on primary ride and low frequency vibrations. This paper discusses unique methodology developed with the goal to reduce the chassis systems development time through driver-in-loop simulator for semi-active damper development. Typically, without virtual development, the definition of the initial dampers tuning specs requires a Mule vehicle, or at least a comparable vehicle.