Effect of tyre handling characteristics on driver judgement of vehicle directional stability
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There is no doubt that tyres have a strong impact on vehicle behaviour and on the driver assessment of vehicle performance. This relates to handling, perceived safety and controllability, the amount of effect required to react, course following and straight line stability, etc. Several of these aspects are known to correlate to some extent with objective indicators such as gains, response times and alike, as obtained from open loop reference tests. But there is more, particularly in relation to the interface between steering system and driver control and perceived feed-back, where these phenomena are still not well understood. In fact, this was one of the motivations for the seminar 'Understanding human monitoring and assessment'. In the paper, several studies from the past are discussed focusing on the influence of the tyre design parameters on the driver assessment, where both open-loop and closed-loop results are considered. This results in an overview of the discriminating physical tyre parameters examined, the experimental approaches applied, and the outputparameters (subjective and objective identifiers) describing the vehicle behaviour.
TNO Identifier
362470
Publisher
Swets & Zeitlinger
Source title
Vehicle performance
Editor(s)
Pauwelussen, J.P.
Collation
24 p.
Place of publication
Lisse
Pages
151-176
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