Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Technical Review
    Vol. 61 No. 2 (2024)   Plants & Infrastructure Systems
    Technical Papers

    Development of Ride Experience System to Evaluate Comfort of Automated Guideway Transit Using Virtual Reality Technology

    AKIHISA KAWAUCHI
    TOSHIYUKI WADA
    YUKIHIDE YANOBU
    KOJI UCHIDA
    TOSHIFUMI KUDO

    In recent years, the need to improve the comfort of various types of vehicles has greatly increased. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. has continued to improve the ride quality of its AGT products by reducing the vibration of the vehicle through various measures. Until now, implementation of actual vehicle running tests were needed to verify the ride experience effected by such measures. At this time, we have developed a portable experience system using VR and a motion chair where one can experience the actual ride of a vehicle. With this system, various verifications are possible without running actual vehicles by reproducing the feeling of a ride similar to that of the actual running vehicle. In this report, we would like to describe our efforts.