Technical Paper
An Approach for the Objective Description of Vehicle Longitudinal Acceleration
2011-09-11
2011-24-0166
A trend in vehicle propulsion of converting from power sources such as a naturally aspirated internal combustion engine to turbocharged engines (Downsizing), multi-mode combustion systems (stratified charged combustion, HCCI) or multi-power source propulsion systems such as hybrid power-trains, can be observed. The subsequent switching between these different combustion modes or power sources, and, more importantly, the incorporation of turbochargers (turbo-lag) can affect the driveability, i.e. the smoothness of torque provision during transient driving manoeuvres. So far there is a lack of methodologies that can quantify and objectively describe vehicle transient acceleration events from a driver's point of perception. Thus an approach was developed while incorporating the acceleration transducers of men, the vestibular apparatus, into a longitudinal vehicle model with a transient engine / powertrain model.