Driveability OptimizationCustomer RequirementsDriveability describes the complex and subjective feelings of a driver experienced as interaction between him and his vehicle in several hundreds of single criteria. A positive feeling creates confidence and safety and is an essential prerequisite for driving pleasure and purchase decision.
Currently driveability is evaluated by filling out form sheets. These assessments are time and cost intensive, limited in repeatability and not objective.
Developing a new vehicle model is naturally a very expensive, time and resources consuming task. In addition to driveability demands a car manufacturer has to meet many other needs like durability, low fuel consumption, low emissions, new design and high quality appearance. Model cycles and therefore development cycles become shorter to be the first on the market with a new model.
Manufacturers are faced with the huge challenge of constantly increasing product quality coupled with producing special brand distinctiveness in ever shorter development times.
As a consequence more effective development processes using new methods and tools are needed.
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AVL Strengths- Understanding end consumers driveability expectations
- Understanding car and driver interaction and human perception
- Correlation of subjective human impression and measurable data
- World wide unique driveability evaluation tool AVL-DRIVE
- Advanced in house vehicle and drivetrain simulation tool
- Automated calibration tool AVL Cameo
- Deep application know how and facilities
- On site project work with the customer
Customer Benefits- Reducing vehicle driveability analysis from weeks to days
- Objective and repeatable driveability ratings
- Higher driveability quality out of more effective development time
- Shorter development through road to rig and simultaneous development
- Early detection of driveability problems in the development process
- Improved vehicle character and driveability quality
- Up to 50% reduction of expensive prototype vehicles
- Higher customer satisfaction
- More Efficient Development
- Higher Driveability Quality
- Computer Assisted Development
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AVL Approach- Objective real time simulation of driver feeling with unique AVL-DRIVE
- Simulation and prediction of engine, powertrain and vehicle driveability effects
- Simultaneous development and evaluation of vehicle character, emissions and performance
- Driveability measuring in the Road to Rig development process
- Engine Calibration on test bed without car (vehicle data from CAE)
- Automated calibration
- Virtual development and improvement with VSM
- Combined testing and simulation concept
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Services- Vehicle driveability quality and vehicle character analysis
- Objective vehicle benchmark
- Recommendation for improvement and driveability targets
- OEM specific driveability ratings, definitions are implemented in AVL-DRIVE
- Driveability development under consideration of emissions and performance
- Virtual improvement of driveability criteria
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