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Fuel economy testing of autonomous vehicles
Institution:1. The University of Texas at Austin, 6.9E Cockrell Jr. Hall, Austin, TX 78712, United States;2. Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, United States;1. Advanced Control and Intelligent Systems Laboratory, University of British Columbia, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada;2. Laboratoire sur les Interactions Vehicules, Infrastructure, Conducteurs (LIVIC), IFSTTAR-CoSys-LIVIC, 25 alle des Marronniers, 78000 Versailles, France;1. Department of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, New East Building, Campus Box #3140, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3140, United States;2. Department of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Abernethy Hall, Campus Box #3435, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3435, United States
Abstract:Environmental pollution and energy use in the light-duty transportation sector are currently regulated through fuel economy and emissions standards, which typically assess quantity of pollutants emitted and volume of fuel used per distance driven. In the United States, fuel economy testing consists of a vehicle on a treadmill, while a trained driver follows a fixed drive cycle. By design, the current standardized fuel economy testing system neglects differences in how individuals drive their vehicles on the road. As autonomous vehicle (AV) technology is introduced, more aspects of driving are shifted into functions of decisions made by the vehicle, rather than the human driver. Yet the current fuel economy testing procedure does not have a mechanism to evaluate the impacts of AV technology on fuel economy ratings, and subsequent regulations such as Corporate Average Fuel Economy targets. This paper develops a method to incorporate the impacts of AV technology within the bounds of current fuel economy test, and simulates a range of automated following drive cycles to estimate changes in fuel economy. The results show that AV following algorithms designed without considering efficiency can degrade fuel economy by up to 3%, while efficiency-focused control strategies may equal or slightly exceed the existing EPA fuel economy test results, by up to 10%. This suggests the need for a new near-term approach in fuel economy testing to account for connected and autonomous vehicles. As AV technology improves and adoption increases in the future, a further reimagining of drive cycles and testing is required.
Keywords:Autonomous vehicles  Fuel economy  Adaptive cruise control  AV  ACC  Vehicle testing
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