Abstract. With increasing level of complexity and automation in the area of automotive engineering, the simulation of safety relevant Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) leads to increasing accuracy demands in the description of tyre contact forces. In recent years, with improvement in tyre simulation, the needs for coping with tyre temperatures and the resulting changes in tyre characteristics are rising significantly. Therefore, experimental validation of three different temperature model approaches is carried out, discussed and compared in the scope of this article. To investigate or rather evaluate the range of application of the presented approaches in combination with respect of further implementation in semi-physical tyre models, the main focus lies on the a physical parameterisation. Aside from good modelling accuracy, focus is held on computational time and complexity of the parameterisation process. To evaluate this process and discuss the results, measurements from a Hoosier racing tyre 6.0 / 18.0 10 LCO C2000 from an industrial flat test bench are used. Finally the simulation results are compared with the measurement data.
IntroductionWith enhanced integration of simulation and modelling into vehicle development and assistance systems, the requirements for simulation models regarding precision and computational time are increasing rapidly. In this case, not only demands affecting vehicle modelling but also tyre modelling become more important. In recent years, with improvement in tyre simulation, the needs for coping with tyre temperatures and the resulting changes in tyre characteristics are rising significantly. These changes include, amongst other things, the temperature dependent behaviour of friction coefficients and the loss of cornering stiffness with increasing temperature. To account those effects in modern assistance systems, it will become mandatory to reliably estimate tyre temperatures with information gathered from sensors or state estimators the vehicle can provide. This needs to be done in real time and therefore a reasonable compromise between accuracy and computational time has to be achieved. To generate a comparative basis three different models are tested in regard of the fulfilment of the requirements mentioned. To keep the effort needed for parameterisation as low as possible, the models were designed to handle the simulation with little to no information about the car itself and instead focusing on properties derived from tyre measurements.