Principal component analysis of vehicle acceleration gain and translation of voice of the customer

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering

Volumn 222, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 191-204

  Lee, Sangdon ^a  

^a GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceleration gain; Acceleration gain surface; Acceleration response surface; Customer preference; Eigenvalue decomposition; Market positioning; Principal component analysis; Singular value decomposition; Vehicle acceleration; Voice of the customer

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

ACCELERATION GAIN; ACCELERATION GAIN SURFACES; ACCELERATION RESPONSE SURFACES; CUSTOMER PREFERENCE; MARKET POSITIONING; VEHICLE ACCELERATION; VOICE OF THE CUSTOMER;

ACCELERATION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 41949133196     PISSN: 09544070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/09544070JAUTO351     Document Type: Article

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