A Simple and Efficient Description of Car Body Movements for Use in Virtual Prototyping and Ride Comfort Evaluation

Ideally, ride comfort evaluation, or any field evaluating human perception of motion, would be greatly simplified if such evaluation could be made based upon a single number or a simple curve that correlates with the perception of motion.

The paper describes a ride comfort descriptor of pitch movements that is simple to use in virtual prototyping and ride comfort evaluations. This descriptor, i.e. Pitch Indicator, is validated in a calculation model, ride comfort measurements and subjective evaluations.