Technical Paper
Impact of Automated Driving on Design and Energy Consumption of Electrified Drives
2024-04-09
2024-01-2158
In this paper we discuss the dependency between powertrain design and automated driving. The research questions at hand are how much impacts automated driving the drive design and how is the energy and fuel consumption in comparison to customer driving influenced. For this investigation a concept study is carried out for a D-segment vehicle and multiple powertrain topologies, ranging from non-electrified to plug-in hybrids and battery electric vehicles. In order to address the research questions at hand the utilized development process is presented accordingly as well as the methods for drive system optimization, taking into account all vehicle requirements, drive system as well as components and their interactions with each other. This work focuses on two automated driving functions developed at the Institute of Automotive Engineering of the Technische Universität Braunschweig. The functions are an “automated valet parking” and a “highway pilot”.