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Team/division description
TME R&D centre is responsible for planning, development and production support of vehicles aimed at - and locally produced for - the European market.
The “NV & Driveability” team is part of the Vehicle Performance Engineering division (VPE) division and is responsible for the vehicle NVH (Noise, Vibration and harshness) according to EU customer expectations. We aim at the development of attractive and “fun to drive“ cars matching European market requirements and customer expectations. Using state-of-the art experimental and numerical methods, we develop strategies to achieve the targets, and validate them on virtual and physical prototypes.
Your project
Title: "Emotional drive by active sound”
With the transition to hybrid and electric vehicles, customer expectations towards interior quietness are further increasing. Furthermore, the transition towards a Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) will introduce new possibilities to apply active sound creation technologies to create a unique sound experience for each person in the car cabin. How should the future electric vehicle sound?
In this internship, you will contribute to shaping the soundscape of future electric vehicles. We aim to realize a customer-centric approach in evaluating different sound aspects when a customer is using their car. Your role will be to support creating an infrastructure for immersive sound evaluation and to contribute to the auralization of different soundscapes and the evaluation of different sound aspects in this environment. More specifically, your tasks may include the following aspects (all of them or focused on some of them, depending on your preference, capability and progress during the internship):
- You will support the creation of holistic vehicle sound models, based on modification of existing vehicle sound recordings and your own study of sound concepts (sound research, benchmarking), to establish links between sound and motion perception / emotional driving experience.
- You will support the implementation & evaluation of these sound models using state-of-the-art jury testing methods and draw conclusions from a statistical evaluation of the results.
- You will ensure the auralization of the sounds in a holistic (driving simulator) environment, and support actual in-vehicle implementation and playback of active sounds and extended soundscape.
