DESIGN AND HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP SIMULATION OF AN AUTOMATIC HEADLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEM

Abstract

Abstract This paper presents the hardware in the loop simulation of an Adaptive Headlight System for motor vehicles. The headlamp orientation control system rotates the right and left low beam headlights independently. It also possesses an automatic headlamp levelling system, which, in addition to compensating for different loads, also cancels out the pitching effect during acceleration or braking to provide better night time visibility. The real time vehicle model used in this paper is the single track model with a half car suspension system. The hardware-in-the-loop simulation setup proposed for testing the adaptive headlight concept is based on a driving simulator. Real time simulations using this simulator are used to illustrate the approach.