Figures & data
Figure 1. Flowchart of the proposed family design method.
Figure 2. Torque on wheel comparison between test data and simulation model.
Figure 3. Engine torque comparison between test data and simulation model.
Table 1. The vehicle dynamics specifications for simulation.
Table 2. Selected range for different objectives.
Table 3. The system constraints for the PHEV design problem.
Table 4. Individual variants design optimisation solutions.
Figure 4. Metamodel accuracy for 150 sample points.
Table 5. Local and global sensitivities of variables in the PHEV family design problem.
Table 6. Quantified correlation of variables in the PHEV family design problem.
Table 7. Suggestions for commonalisation based on the sensitivity and correlation analysis findings.
Figure 5. The partitioning scheme for the variables in the PHEV family design problem based on CV and SI.
Table 8. The determined number of platform/sub-platforms for the proposed method.
Table 9. Platform configuration of the variants based on the proposed partitioning scheme.
Table 10. Family design solution by the proposed method.
Table 11. Comparison of our method to the individual optima.
Figure 6. Performance deviation per k for X4.
