Patent ID: 8073576
Filing Date: 2011-12-06
Classification: B60W

Abstract:
1. An acceleration sensation evaluating device comprising: an operation amount detecting section that detects an amount of operation of a vehicle by a driver when the vehicle is accelerated; a vehicle/person behavior detecting section that detects an amount of vehicle behavior, or the amount of vehicle behavior and an amount of driver behavior; an expectation value physical quantity computing section that computes as a physical quantity that the driver sense as a somatic sensation, a physical quantity of an expectation value indicating the expectation value of an acceleration performance that the driver expects, based on the detected value of the operation amount detecting section and the detected value of the vehicle/person behavior detecting section; a sensory physical quantity computing section that computes, as a physical quantity that the driver sense as a somatic sensation, a sensory physical quantity indicating a sensation of the acceleration which the driver senses, based on the detected value of the vehicle/person behavior detecting section; a computer having a comparing/computing section that compares the physical quantity of the expectation value with the sensory physical quantity and outputs a comparison result; and an evaluation value computing section that computes an evaluation value of the acceleration sensation based on the output of the comparing/computing section.