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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2022
Horiba, Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Philip Roberts, Warwickshire, GB;
Kunio Tabata, Warwickshire, GB;
Steven Whelan, Warwickshire, GB;
Aaron Headley, Warwickshire, GB;
HORIBA, LTD., , JP;
Abstract
The present invention aims to improve the efficiency of automobile development by front loading the evaluation of an on-road driving test, and comprises a virtual evaluation step of simulating the on-road driving test using a driving environment model which models a driving environment, an operating state model which models an operating state, and a vehicle model which models the actual vehicle; a bench test evaluation step of imitating the on-road driving test by combining a part or all of the actual vehicle, a part or all of the vehicle model, a part or all of the driving environment model, and a part or all of the operating state model, and conducting a bench test of a part or all of the actual vehicle, and an on-road driving test evaluation step of conducting the on-road driving test of the actual vehicle in a real driving environment.
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