4. Conclusion
Poor urban air quality persists in global cities where large proportions of the population are exposed to harmful levels of pollutants. Regulations to address such emissions, including from road vehicles, are becoming more strict. However, the gap is increasing between predicted (based on the regulatory tests) and real-world fuel use and emissions. One way to increase the accuracy of predictions is by using accurate engine maps simulated over real-world driving cycles. This work presents a method to create engine maps using data gathered from OBD and PEMS while vehicles are operating in the real-world. This work is motivated by the ubiquity of OBD in modern vehicles and the requirement by new vehicle emissions regulations in Europe and the US to employ PEMS as part of in-use conformity tests. The regulatory push to use PEMS implies a large amount of real-world data will become available across a range of vehicles. This work is novel because it uses OBD and PEMS data directly. Conversely, existing methods require steady-state engine maps, obtained from a dynamometer test in most cases, to create a transient counterpart. The method extracts the effective gear ratios from the OBD and uses PEMS output to create a large set of candidate engine maps. A sensitivity sweep of vehicle physical characteristics is used in ADVISOR to find the optimum vehicle configuration based on the smallest sum of Euclidean distances per second between the observed and simulated engine torque-speed pairs per configuration. Similarly, the optimum bins for fuel use and emissions correspond to the smallest sum of absolute deviations per second between observed and simulated data. The resulting maps reproduced accurately the shape and magnitude of fuel use and emissions for the three test vehicles presented such that the difference between simulated and observed cumulative fuel use and emissions was less than 5% in general.