Desdemona is a moving-base research-simulator that was designed with a special focus on spatial disorientation demonstrations, flight simulation, and driving simulation. The cabin is equipped with a car mock-up that contains force-feedback on pedals and steering wheel, and out-the-window visuals. The cabin is mounted in a fully gimbaled system that, as a whole, can move vertically and horizonta...

A user-friendly speech interface in a car cabin is highly needed for safety reasons. This paper will describe a robust speech recognition method that can cope with additive noises and multiplicative distortions. A known additive noise, a source signal of which is available, might be canceled by NLMSVAD(Normalized Least Mean Squares with frame-wise Voice Activity Detection). On the other hand, a...

A Cabin Car Communication System (CCCS) has the goal of improving the communication among passengers inside the car. Wind, road and engine noise, the distance between passengers and other factors make difficult the communication inside vehicles. The driver must often look away from the road and passengers move out of normal seating positions. The CCCS makes use of a set of microphones to pick u...

This paper presents a novel array processing algorithm for noise reduction in a hands free car environment. The algorithm incorporates the spatial properties of the sound field in a car cabin and a constraint on allowable speech signal distortion. Our results indicate that the proposed algorithm gives substantial performance improvement of 15-20 dB in comparison with the conventional array proc...

In this paper, the acoustic environment in a vehicle cabin under the influence of highfrequencies aerodynamic sources has been studied. Some panels on the windshield, the roof, the doors, the front pillars, and the floor of a vehicle simulated as input source of noise when the car is moving at high speed, i.e. 112 km/h. The status of vehicle cabin in each of these modes has been studied and com...

Air path model of cabin for cooling module simulation for vehicle has been constructed according to the test, and the simulation results were compared with the test data to verify the authenticity of the module. This simulation model provides an effective platform for vehicle thermal management analysis. The module is used to simulate the different intake grills and to find how different grills...

A stochastic model predictive controller (SMPC) of air conditioning (AC) system is proposed to improve the energy efficiency of electric vehicles (EV). A Markov-chain based velocity predictor is adopted to provide a sense of the future disturbances over the SMPC control horizon. The sensitivity of electrified AC plant to solar radiation, ambient temperature and relative air flow speed is quanti...