Design Method for EPS Control System Based on KANSEI Structure

Abstract

Recently, it has been identified that a KANSEI engineering plays an important role in functional design developing for realizing highly sophisticated products. However, in practical development methods, we design products and optimise the design trial and error, which indecates that we depend on the skill set of experts.
In this paper, we focus on an automobile electric power steering (EPS) for which a functional design is required. First, the KANSEI structure is determined on the basis of the steering feeling of an experienced driver, and an EPS control design based on this KANSEI structure is proposed. Then, the EPS control parameters are adjusted in accordance with the KANSEI index. Finally, by assessing the experimental results obtained from the driver, the effectiveness of the proposed design method is verified.