During development of new vehicles finding correlation links between subjective assessments and objective metrics is an important part in the vehicle evaluation process. Studying different correlation links is of importance in order to make use of the gained knowledge in the front end of development, during testing and for new systems. Both subjective assessments using the rating scale of 1-10 from expert drivers and objective metrics from different tests measured by a steering robot were collected by standard testing protocols at an automotive manufacturer. This paper evaluates driver ratings and analyse correlations by using Regression Analysis and Neural Networks through a case study approach. Links have been identified and are compared to related research.
QC 20131007