The rapid development of a vehicle electronic control system and its application to an antilock braking system based on hardware-in-the-loop simulation

The paper describes in detail a rapid development system for vehicle electronic control systems by using real-time hardware-in-the-loop (HiL) simulation technology. This system can be used in parallel with the development of a new vehicle electronic control product. Once desired simulation results are achieved from the real-time HiL simulator in laboratory environments, control system design can be verified by setting up the same configuration in the new product in-vehicle test. The correlation between HiL simulation results and vehicle field test data can thereby be evaluated. The feasibility and effectiveness of the rapid development system have been demonstrated through the development of a vehicle antilock braking system (ABS) control algorithm. A significant reduction in development cycle time and cost has been achieved with the aid of this powerful tool, and the effectiveness of the ABS algorithm has been validated in vehicle field tests. The proposed ideal and approach can also be applied to develop other control systems, such as a traction control system, a vehicle stability control system, etc.