Development of a Vehicle Simulator Based on a Real Car for Research and Education Purposes

Abstract

-The paper presents a hardware-in-the-loop simulation environment, which is built in such a way that the simulator tends to the real vehicle functions as much as possible. The simulation system contains several components such as an HMI (Human Machine Interface), a high-accuracy validated simulation software operated on a PC and a visual system with real-time graphics. The simulator is equally suitable for educational and research purposes. All the vehicle engineer students use the simulator system during their curriculum, enabling the thorough understanding of modern vehicle functions, thus improving the competence of future generations of engineers. Moreover the simulator system projects ahead the opportunity of new vehicle research that induces considerable additional scientific results.

Tuning of Look-ahead Cruise Control in HIL Vehicle Simulator

“…The development of SIL and HIL simulation environments are getting more and more widespread among automotive companies and researchers as well, see (Bringmann and Krämer, 2008;Vandi et al, 2014). In (Szalay et al, 2012) a HIL vehicle driving simulator has been developed based on a real vehicle. In (Gietelink et al 2007) a HIL environment served for the development of intelligent driver assistant systems, while in (Deng et al, 2008) a laboratory environment has been developed to test and verify autonomous vehicle functions.…”

Real-time Look-ahead Cruise Control Simulator

“…Since testing embedded control systems on real vehicles may depend on the availability of prototype vehicles, automotive companies tend to use more and more vehicle simulators in order to execute typical test scenarios, see Tsampardoukas, and Mouzakitis (2012). A hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulator based on a real vehicle was introduced in (Szalay et al, 2012), where a high-accuracy validated simulation software was attached to several hardware components. This simulator has already been used to set up longitudinal and lateral driver models based on driver experiments, see (Mihály and Gáspár, 2014).…”