Tightnening emission regulations and increasing powertrain complexity lead car manufacturers to rely on novel testing methods in order to frontload development. Among these, Engine-in-the-Loop, that is, the coupling of a physical internal combustion engine (ICE) on a testbed with a virtual environment, shows great promise for emission- and consumption-related tasks. In particular, this study focuses on the driver model, a simple yet crucial component of the virtual environment. A longitudinal driver model is developed in Simulink based on the PI-regulation structure and augmented with anti-windup, cycle preview, and takeoff strategy. While the PI approach is generally chosen in the literature, this study details the implementation of the added functions, and proposes a method for the gains of the model to be tuned in simulation by considering engine dynamics, and using several performance indicators. The virtual driver is then tested in a complete EiL setup simulating an electric hybrid driveline and shows satisfactory cycle-following and overall behavior on a WLTC. Robustness of the tuning method is also studied by varying vehicle parameters on the EiL bench.
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