Automatic Learning-Based Calibration of Assisted Motorcycle Gearshift: A Comparative Study

A comparison of different approaches to the automatic online, data-driven calibration of assisted gearshift settings for a motorcycle is presented. An objective function associated with the component stress and clutch resynchronization time is exploited and optimized during operation using different strategies: from naïve space-filling approaches to learning-based black-box optimization algorithms. The performance of various methods is compared in real-world experiments using metrics related to the experimental convergence rate and the quality of the best found result.