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OWHEEL · Benchmarking of Wheel Corner Concepts Towards Optimal Comfort by Automated Driving

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2020-01-01 → 2024-12-31
EU contribution
€602,600
Participants
14
Scheme
MSCA-RISE

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Results in brief

Benchmarking of Wheel Corner Concepts Towards Optimal Comfort by Automated Driving

OWHEEL is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions RISE project establishing and supporting a collaborative re-search, innovation and training activities between industrial and academic partners from European countries, Japan and South Africa. The project has a focus on a disruptive engineering of alternative vehicle chassis concepts for future automated driving (AD) mobility. The OWHEEL works will cover development, industrial implementation and testing of innovative wheel corners for electric vehicles having automation level 4 to 5 in accordance with SAE J3016 standard. These works are the back-bone of strong multidisciplinary professional network that will extend beyond OWHEEL’s lifespan and is envisaged to respond to emerging skills needs in the automotive sector. Recent industrial outcomes in this area revealed that development of automated vehicles need a paradigm shift regarding the systems design due to the important change in the transition from partial to high automation. The act of driving makes drivers practically insensitive to motion sickness and acceleration discomfort, while passive passengers typically suffer most. The mentioned paradigm shift is being characterized as follows: - Self-learning and self-configuration techniques not only for the high-level control (e.g. related to the vehicle path planning) but also for the low-level control (related to coordinated operation of vehicle chas-sis and powertrain actuators); - Targeted use of actuators having exceptionally high operating and response performance to address AD-specific requirements to driving safety and comfort; - Simultaneous operation of various on-board systems from different physical domains (i.e. electric motors, hydraulic and electro-hydraulic actuators) that requires optimal strategies for their blended control by independent criteria such as fault-tolerance; - AD requires the evaluation of the performance of relevant systems taking into account the shift from the active involvement of the driver to a passive role; therefore, the requirements related to comfort and the ability to perform different tasks become essential. Considering both importance and complexity of these aspects, the project is addresing the following overall goal: Development and evaluation of new concepts of automotive wheel corners tailored to achieve significant reduction of user discomfort during automated driving with simultaneous fulfilment of requirements to safety and robustness.

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Project objective

The project OWHEEL aims at the development and evaluation of new concepts of automotive wheel corners as crucial elements of future vehicle architecture tailored to provide an optimal comfort during automated driving. The consortium will benchmark four essentially different classes: Passive corner with specific wheel positioning; Passive composite corner; Active corner with ordinary ride dynamics control; Active corner with integrated wheel positioning control.For each proposed concept, the project will include relevant stages of development design, extensive simulation studies and experimental validation. The main goal of the OWHEEL project is to perform deep analysis and provide on its basis the recommendations for future vehicle architecture, which could ensure an optimal comfort by automated driving. In this regard, the research and innovation objectives are focused on: i.Revisiting the driving comfort criteria with their tuning to automated driving requirements and operational modes;ii.Development of bencmarking criteria and corresponding analytical tool for comparison of wheel corner concepts in terms of driving comfort quality with simultaneous ensuring of required performance in terms of safety, energy-efficiency and reliability;iii.Development and validation of active wheel corner concepts;iv.Development and validation of passive wheel corner concepts; v.Producing practical recommendations for automotive system developers based on obtained R&D resultsThe implementation of the project OWHEEL will be based on intensive staff exchange that leads to collaborative research and training between universities and industrial organizations from EU, Japan and South Africa. The project will also include relevant networking, dissemination and exploitation actions.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET ILMENAU · IlmenauCoordinatorGermany
  • ARRIVAL GERMANY GMBH · BerlinCity levelGermany
  • ARRIVAL LTD · LONDONCity levelUnited Kingdom
  • MEGARIDE SRL · NAPOLIItaly
  • NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO · TOKYOJapan
  • POLITECNICO DI TORINO · TorinoItaly
  • TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT · DelftNetherlands
  • TENNECO AUTOMOTIVE EUROPE BVBA · Sint TruidenBelgium
  • UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MODENA E REGGIO EMILIA · ModenaItaly
  • UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II · NapoliItaly
  • UNIVERSITE DE TECHNOLOGIE DE COMPIEGNE · COMPIEGNE CEDEXFrance
  • UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA · PretoriaSouth Africa
  • UNIVERSITY OF SURREY · GuildfordUnited Kingdom
  • VILNIAUS GEDIMINO TECHNIKOS UNIVERSITETAS · VilniusLithuania

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union