In the last decade unsupervised pattern discovery in time series, i.e.
the problem of finding recurrent similar subsequences in long
multivariate time series without the need of querying subsequences, has
earned more and more attention in research and industry. Pattern
discovery was already successfully applied to various areas like
seismology, medicine, robotics or music. Until now an application to
automotive time series has not been investigated. This dissertation
fills this desideratum by studying the special characteristics of
vehicle sensor logs and proposing an appropriate approach for pattern
discovery. To prove the benefit of pattern discovery methods in
automotive applications, the algorithm is applied to construct
representative driving cycles.