Title: An active DoE method for the automated driving function ACC controller calibration

Authors: Su Zhou; Rucai Wang; Hans-Michael Koegeler; Jie Jin

Addresses: School of Automotive Studies, Tongji University, Shanghai, China ' Sino-German College, Tongji University, Shanghai, China ' AVL List GmbH, Graz, Austria ' School of Automotive Studies, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Abstract: Generally, the calibration of an advanced driver assist system (ADAS) controller is carried out by an experienced operator, who tunes the most relevant parameters based on his experience. However, the calibration results are highly subjective, and could easily end up with a local optimum. To solve this problem, this paper studies an active design of experiment (DoE) calibration method for an adaptive cruise control (ACC) system controller, which needs to be calibrated with the targets of improving fuel efficiency and driving comfort. A statistical method was applied to arrange the simulation points of the most significant parameters. With the simulation results, the key performance indicator (KPI) models of the ACC system were built, to find the global optimum. Finally, the ACC controller was successfully calibrated with the least possible efforts and achieved a 19% reduction of fuel consumption and 49% improvement of driving comfort comparing to the ACC controller with the base set.

Keywords: advanced driver assist system; ADAS; design of experiment; DoE; key performance indicator model; calibration; simulation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPT.2022.121900

International Journal of Powertrains, 2022 Vol.11 No.1, pp.19 - 37

Received: 14 Aug 2020
Accepted: 15 Jul 2021
Published online: 07 Apr 2022 *

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