General information
Company general information
TOYOTA is one of the world’s largest automobile manufacturers and a leading global corporation. Founded in 1937. Toyota now sells vehicles in 170 countries and employs over 300.000 people.
Based in Brussels, Belgium, and staffed by 2.700 people and more than 60 nationalities, Toyota Motor Europe (TME) handles the wholesale marketing of Toyota and Lexus vehicles, parts & accessories, and manages Toyota’s European R&D, manufacturing and engineering operations.
Team/division description
Vehicle Performance Engineering – Model Based Development
The VPE-MBD team within R&D has the role of providing simulation models and virtual evaluation tools to the specific performance teams (handling, ride comfort, drivability, brake control), as well as defining more advanced performance indicators to support vehicle project development target setting. Most of the experiments are conducted on Driving simulator managed by the same team.
Your project
SYMBIOTIC DRIVING RESEARCH AND APPLICATION
The mission of the work will be to improve the understanding of the driver-vehicle interaction for continuous or intermittent steering control.
Identify the parameters of an existing driver model with the focus on highway straight line control.
Calibration of a steering assist controller to improve path following accuracy and driver comfort, by improving the matching of real drivers on driving simulator experiment with driver model estimation.
Your profile
• Student in final year study of Master degree of engineering, with focus on vehicle dynamics & control systems.
• Proficient in Matlab/Python scripting and Simulink modelling.
• Strong data mining and deep dive analysis skills.
• Experience with control systems and preferably driving simulators
• Sound knowledge of vehicle dynamics simulation packages (CarMaker/Dymola/Simpack).
• Fluent in English.
Place of employment: Toyota Motor Europe R&D (Brussels, Belgium)
Starting date: from May 1st
Duration: 6 months
Confidentiality: Due to business requirement, not all performed projects can be reflected in the internship report. This issue needs to be discussed with candidate/school in advance.
It is mandatory that applicants are students for the entire period of the internship. Interested in this internship, please apply online via www.toyotajobs.com.
We can only accept students with an EEA or Swiss citizenship (not requiring a work permit or visa to be eligible to perform an internship in Belgium)
