Motion Parameter Tuning and Evaluation for the DLR Automotive Simulator

Kurzfassung

The DLR dynamic driving simulator is a 6 DoF motion base with a range of 3 m in the horizontal plane and 2 m in the vertical direction. A real car is placed within the mounted cabin with a 270° field-of-view visualisation. This paper describes the first evaluation tasks associated with the commissioning of a new motion-based driving simulator and presents a comprehensive strategy to prove its validity. After a short description of the laboratory environment, the classification according to a given validity definition and the prioritisation of the subsequent tasks are explained. Within a first phase, the parameters of the motion filter algorithm are optimised following an adapted tuning paradigm. Different manoeuvre specific tuned parameter sets are compared and evaluated during the main experiment consisting of two parts: a real world drive and a simulator test. Besides the objective criteria, i.e. comparison of steering behaviour or speed choice in the real and the virtual world, the subjective assessment of the motion cueing is introduced as an important contribution to the evaluation goals.