The development of a vehicle and road load sumulation for an engine dynamometer intended for emissons testing and powertrain development
Date
2013-02-05
Authors
Kunninger, Daniel
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Abstract
This dissertation documents the development and evaluation of a vehicle and road load
simulation program for an engine dynamometer intended for emissions testing and powertrain
development. The document summarizes the reviewed vehicle emissions testing,
engine testing and test equipment documentation, as part of the conducted literature
study. It continues to describe the existing dynamic test cell at Cape Advanced Engineering
used for the development and evaluation of the described system as well as the changes
that were implemented to the test cell to enable full transient vehicle simulation. The
development of an offline simulation model, a preprocessing simulation model and real
time hardware in the loop simulation model are discussed. The progression made from one
developed model to the next as well as the reasons for the progression are stated and
discussed. The evaluation process of the hardware in the loop model as well as the
conducted evaluation by the simulation of the European Communities Transient Test Cycle
is discussed and the derived simulation accuracy of 7% based on fuel consumption over the
duration of the test cycle is documented. Improvements made to the simulation model
during the evaluation and the vehicle and power-train effective rotational inertia that was
used in the model are reviewed and their effects discussed. Fields of application as well as
future recommendations to the derived system are provided.