Customer-Relevant Properties of Autonomous Vehicle Concepts

Schockenhoff, Ferdinand; König, Adrian; Koch, Alexander; Lienkamp, Markus

doi:10.1016/j.procir.2020.02.150

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“…The state of the art of the first group is therefore presented in a complete manner, while only examples are presented for the second group. Schockenhoff et al (2020a) present a method to identify the customer-relevant properties for AVCs and a resulting portfolio. They classify them into the three categories of similar properties, changed properties and new properties compared to the portfolio of conventional vehicle concepts, which is given by (Rudolph et al, 2011;Wiedemann et al, 2012;Ziemann, 2007).…”

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User Need-Oriented Concept Development of Autonomous Vehicles

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Vehicle concept development is a domain that has applied and detailed its process over decades. The megatrends of the 21st century of “automation” and “sharing” influence the vehicle concept in such a manner that this well-running process needs an update. The vehicle itself and the customer of the vehicle are changing and therefore the components of the vehicle and the input variables of the useroriented design of the vehicle concept must be changed as well. We present a development process for autonomous vehicle concepts to address these challenges. We are therefore analyzing the current definition of a vehicle concept and its development process. Based on a literature review of a selection of common design methodologies, we update this definition for autonomous vehicle concepts and present a development process that presents design concepts of autonomous vehicle in a user need oriented way. This includes the sharing of models since user needs could be fulfilled by more than one vehicle concept. We believe that the presented process can be a starting point for vehicle concept development of the 21st century.

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“…User groups must be considered due to sharing concepts. Second, the transition from driver to passenger is associated with a focus on secondary activities [15]. Here, we distinguish the secondary activities of driving, relaxing, working, sleeping, and load with the fifth secondary activity of load included to also allow luggage and logistic applications.…”

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“…Both automation and sharing will impact users' attitudes toward the vehicle. While automation enables the performance of personal and individual secondary activities by eliminating the driving task [15], sharing leads to mobility concepts by users abandoning privately owned vehicles [16].…”

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Combining a Genetic Algorithm and a Fuzzy System to Optimize User Centricity in Autonomous Vehicle Concept Development

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The megatrends of individualization and sharing will dramatically change our consumer behavior. The needs of a product’s users will be central input for its development. Current development processes are not suitable for this product development; thus, we propose a combination of a genetic algorithm and a fuzzy system for user-centered development. We execute our new methodological approach on the example of autonomous vehicle concepts to demonstrate its implementation and functionality. The genetic algorithm minimizes the required number of vehicle concepts to satisfy the mobility needs of a user group, and the fuzzy system transfers user needs into vehicle-related properties, which are currently input for vehicle concept development. To present this method, we use a typical family and their potential mobility behavior. Our method optimizes their minimal number of vehicle concepts to satisfy all mobility needs and derives the properties of the vehicle concepts. By integrating our method into the entire vehicle concept development process, autonomous vehicles can be designed user-centered in the context of the megatrends of individualization and sharing. In summary, our method enables us to derive an optimized number of products for qualitatively described, heterogeneous user needs and determine their product-related properties.

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“…138-153). Schockenhoff et al (2020) have researched these customer-relevant properties of autonomous vehicle concepts and identified new important aspects from the customer's point of view. Among other aspects, boarding will become a significant part of the user experience with the vehicle.…”

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“…To meet comfort requirements in the best possible way, a user-centered approach must be taken. Comfort and well-being will be key factors for the user's acceptance of autonomous driving (Kipp et al 2020) (Schockenhoff et al 2020). In the scope of the paper, we focus on the comfort during the ingress but also boarding time and air conditioning are aspects of comfort related to the door concept.…”

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Concept Development Process for Doors of Autonomous Vehicles

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Vehicle doors have barely changed in recent decades, and nor has the car. Since autonomous driving will lead to changes in vehicles and how they are used, their doors will also have to be rethought. In the project UNICARagil, researchers from several universities in Germany design and build four prototypes of driverless and autonomous vehicles, which are developed based on a new and modular architecture. As part of this, we developed a concept including a prototype of an automated door system. In this paper, we present our concept development process adapted for door systems of autonomous vehicles. Based on the vehicle concept development process, it should help researchers and engineers to select and design new door concepts in an early phase. At the end, by means of an example, we present the prototype of our door concept as well as a boarding user study we carried out. This study helps evaluate and improve the boarding comfort of future door concepts.

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Customer-Relevant Properties of Autonomous Vehicle Concepts

Cited by 16 publications

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User Need-Oriented Concept Development of Autonomous Vehicles

User Need-Oriented Concept Development of Autonomous Vehicles

Combining a Genetic Algorithm and a Fuzzy System to Optimize User Centricity in Autonomous Vehicle Concept Development

Concept Development Process for Doors of Autonomous Vehicles

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