With the development of intelligence and network connectivity, the development of the automotive industry is also moving toward intelligent systems. For passengers, the utility of intelligence is to achieve more convenience and comfort. The intelligent cockpit is the place where passengers directly interact with the car, which directly affects the experience of passengers in the car. For the intelligent cockpits that have emerged in recent years, a reasonable and accurate comfort evaluation model is urgently needed. Therefore, in this article, from the passenger’s perspective, a subjective evaluation experiment was set up to collect data on four important indicators affecting the comfort of the intelligent cockpit: sound, light, heat, and human–computer interaction. The subjective evaluation weights were derived from a questionnaire, and the entropy weighting method was used to obtain the objective weights. Finally, the two weights were combined using the idea of game theory combination assignment to get the final accurate weights. Using the idea of penalty type substitution, the four index models were then synthesized to get the final evaluation model. The feasibility of the model was verified when measuring the car cockpit. The feasibility of the method means it can evaluate the comfort level of an intelligent cockpit more reasonably, facilitate the enhancement and improvement of the model, and promote the development of the model to achieve maximum passenger comfort.

The entropy method is used in many decisions on indicator weights and has been proven to be effective. The traditional entropy method has two shortcomings in calculating indicator weights. On the one hand, when the developed indicator is considered to have no influence, it will lead to the meaningless calculation formula of the entropy method, and on the other hand, when the entropy method is dealing with data with entropy values close to 1, there will be entropy jumps leading to data distortion. To solve the above shortcomings, two correction coefficients are introduced in this paper, and the improved entropy weight method is applied to the evaluation model of the passenger comfort of the intelligent cockpit of the car, and the effectiveness of the improved entropy weight method is proved.

With the rapid development of automobiles, car cockpits are becoming more and more intelligent and advanced, and the intelligent requirements of automobile cockpits are gradually increasing. However, the real value of intelligence can only be realized when it makes passengers in a cockpit feel comfortable. In this study, seven factors that affect passenger comfort in intelligent cockpits are defined. Under these factors, a total of 33 evaluation indicators were developed. The core of the method was to determine the dissatisfaction indicators and degree of dissatisfaction in the intelligent cockpit by analyzing the relationship between people's perceived performance and their expectations. This method was used to evaluate the Tesla Model 3, and it was found in the results that the higher the degree of dissatisfaction with the indicator, the more subjective feedback it had, which in turn proved the effectiveness of the model. According to the degree of dissatisfaction, the indicators affecting comfort were also divided into three levels. This hierarchical division helps clarify which indicators should be prioritized for improvement. Generally, this method has a certain feasibility, which is helpful for the development and redesign of an intelligent car cockpit, and provides some reference strategies for other transportation fields.comfort, evaluation method, expectation, intelligent cockpit, the degree of dissatisfactionWith the rapid development of technology, the number of intelligent cars has also increased in recent years (Arena et al., 2020). Related research describes the intelligent car of the future as not only improving traffic safety like a robot but also further meeting people's demands by connecting to the Internet (Huang et al., 2016;James, 2012). Intelligent vehicles have become a trend now. Companies such as Tesla, Jaguar, and Google are now launching more intelligent vehicles from innovative materials and innovative technologies (Sun et al., 2021).However, for the vast majority of consumers, it is not the technology itself that cares about them, but how they feel in the cockpit (Park et al., 2019). The benefits of intelligent cars include increased safety, reduced need for infrastructure investment, improved fuel economy, and reduced congestion. But most importantly, they make passengers more relaxed and comfortable (Jorlöv et al., 2017). The real benefits of intelligent cars can only be realized when the human driver is comfortable in the intelligent cockpit and the interaction between the driver and the automated system is at a reasonable level (Helldin et al., 2013). Beggiato et al. (2019 believe that comfort plays an important role in the wide acceptance of intelligent vehicles. For some products such as smart cars, consumer satisfaction is a factor for business success (Park et al., 2019;Salomo et al., 2003). Industry and research are working to develop systems that can automatically adapt to maximize well-being (Olugbade et al., 2021). Therefore, making people feel comfortable is

Under the background of automobile intelligence, cockpit comfort is receiving increasing attention, and intelligent cockpit comfort evaluation is especially important. To study the intelligent cockpit comfort evaluation model, this paper divides the intelligent cockpit comfort influencing factors into four factors and influencing indices: acoustic environment, optical environment, thermal environment, and human–computer interaction environment. The subjective and objective evaluation methods are used to obtain the subjective weights and objective weights of each index by the analytic hierarchy process and the improved entropy weight method, respectively. On this basis, the weights are combined by using the game theory viewpoint to obtain a comprehensive evaluation model of the intelligent automobile cockpit comfort. Then, the cloud algorithm was used to generate the rank comprehensive cloud model of each index for comparison. The research results found that among the four main factors affecting the intelligent automobile cockpit comfort, human–computer interaction has the greatest impact on it, followed by the thermal environment, acoustic environment, and optical environment. The results of the study can be used in intelligent cockpit design to make intelligent cockpits provide better services for people.

Aiming at the comfort evaluation of automobile intelligent cockpit, an evaluation model based on improved combination weighting-cloud model is established. By consulting relevant literature, 4 first-class indexes and 15 second-class indexes, including noise and vibration, light environment, thermal environment and human-computer interaction, are selected to establish a comfort evaluation system. Later the subjective and objective weights obtained by improved Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to an Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) are combined by Game Theory. Considering the fuzziness and randomness of the index system, the combination weights obtained by Game Theory are combined with the cloud model. The floating cloud algorithms is used to determine the first-class and second-class index clouds and the comprehensive evaluation cloud parameters. Improvements were made in two commonly used similarity calculation methods, the expectation curve method (ECM) and the maximum boundary curve method (MCM). A new similarity calculation method is defined to optimize the evaluation results and determine the final comfort evaluation grade. Lastly, a 2021 Audi intelligent car under a certain working condition was selected to verify the correctness and rationality of the model using the fuzzy evaluation method. The results show that the cockpit comfort evaluation model based on the improved combination weighting-cloud model can better reflect the comprehensive comfort of automobile cockpit.