Subjective vehicle stability evaluation is generally conducted during closed-loop driving in which the driver controls the vehicle through transient manoeuvres and evaluate how the vehicle responds to steering inputs, especially how the slip angle builds up. To conduct such evaluation in moving base, driving simulators require that the fed vehicle response to steering inputs is representative. Limited simulator workspace often requires motion scaling, introducing errors in planar dynamics This work, therefore, investigates how the scaling of the planar motion and the slip filtering should be performed in a driving simulator, including the relative relationships between lateral acceleration, yaw rate and slip rate. Two strategies were developed based on the scaling of planar circular motion: one retaining radius information, and the other retaining velocity information. Both strategies avoided filtering the slip rate, as simulations show that the slip rate should be separated from the high-pass filtering process in cueing algorithms and that the scaling should be equal to that of the yaw rate to avoid false cues. A subjective assessment was conducted, and the results indicate advantages for retaining radius information and conclusively the advantage of unfiltered slip information in motion cueing for stability evaluation.
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