HARDWARE IN LOOP SIMULATION AND PERFORMANCE MEASURES OF A TWO WHEELER USING VIRTUAL VEHICLE SIMULATOR

This paper discuss in detail about the performance measures such as suspension effectiveness, brake effectiveness, and wheel wobbling of two wheelers without human intervention. The vehicle performance simulator has been designed in a solid modeling package which cater multi variant of vehicles through adjustable wheel base, modular clamping and load system, and also by servo based cam/drum roller. Simulation studies were performed by controlled force application to front and rear suspension there by measuring the suspension and damping effectiveness of the vehicle. The drum roller was used to accelerate front and rear wheel to the desired speed and by applying brake at specific load, break effectiveness has been measured. The wobbling of the wheel was obtained with the aid of laser sensor embedded on the simulator. The proposed work aims at replacing the human efforts to improve the quality and productivity in the automobile sectors. In this work a virtual prototype vehicle simulator is presented to eliminate the error on the various performance measures of the two wheeler vehicle which helps in increasing the product life cycle management.