CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS FOR DOORS OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES

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 pro...

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Main Authors: König, Adrian, Neuhaus, Patrick, Alexander, Koch, Ferdinand, Schockenhoff, Philipp, Hafemann, Ingrid, Bubb, Markus, Lienkamp
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
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Autonomous vehicles
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Summary: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.
ISSN:2732-527X
2732-527X
DOI:10.1017/pds.2021.70