Presentation Abstract for the 2024 ESI SimulationX User Forum
Mr. Yogesh Tongaonkar - Senior Manager Transmission Development, Tata Motors Ltd.
"Gearshift feel is one of the basic customer touchpoints with which the customer makes an impression about the refinement and robustness of vehicle build quality. Current practice of evaluation of the gearshift quality involves measurement on vehicle and processing of this data to arrive at objective parameters quantifying the results. This process requires presence of physical components assembled in the vehicle making it a time consuming and costly process. In addition to this, to arrive at desired shift feel, might require multiple design iterations further delaying the final product.
The process being discussed in the presentation involves HIL method using gearshift simulator. Gearshift simulator is basically a dynamic servo actuator capable of simulating a gear shift with real time inputs from the driver. Design parameters of the transmission are given as input to the controller and based on the driver inputs the controller provides real time feedback on the shift lever of the simulator which is perceived as gear shift event. Any design iteration can be readily accommodated in the model and its perceived shift quality can be evaluated quickly thereby reducing cost and time of the activity.
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