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Special Session #7: - VPPC 2020

DESIGN AND CONTROL OF POWERTRAIN COMPONENTS FOR
SMALL URBAN ELECTRIC VEHICLES

Co-chair: Davide Tavernini, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Co-chair: Valentin Ivanov, TU Ilmenau, Germany

Call For Papers

This special session focuses on technologies for small size electric vehicles (e.g., small M1 category vehicles and electric quadricycles), specifically targeting the urban use. The attention is on: i) design/optimization activities to increase the efficiency of the powertrain components during urban operation; and ii) high- and low-level vehicle control to reduce energy consumption whilst enhancing tractive and stability performance. The session will cover vehicle layouts with one, two and four electric powertrains. The adoption of additional smart actuators (e.g., steer-by-wire, brake-by-wire) is also envisaged, and adds challenges in terms of controller integration and co-existence with other systems. The considered domains are design, optimization, simulation, modelling, and vehicle control.

Topics of interest include development of control strategies and components for small urban electric vehicles including:

  • Design of highly efficient powertrain components (e.g., motors, inverters)
  • Simulation, modeling, optimization (e.g., co-simulation of vehicle and components)
  • Vehicle testing procedures (e.g., stability tests, energy consumption tests)
  • Control of over-actuated vehicles (e.g., multi-powertrains, brake-by-wire)
  • Tractive performance control (e.g., anti-jerk control, traction control)
  • Energy-efficient control (e.g., regenerative braking control, torque distribution control)

All special session contributions must be prepared and submitted in the same way as those for the conference regular tracks, except that the corresponding special session should be identified during submission.

 

Davide Tavernini received the M.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering and Ph.D. in dynamics and design of mechanical systems from the University of Padova (Italy) in 2010 and 2014, respectively. During his Ph.D. he was part of the motorcycle dynamics research group. He is Assistant Professor in advanced vehicle engineering with the University of Surrey, Guildford, U.K. His research interests include vehicle dynamics modelling, control and state estimation, mostly applied to electric and hybrid vehicles.

 

 

Valentin Ivanov (IEEE M’13–SM’15) received the Ph.D. degree in 1997 and the D.Sc. degree in 2006 in Automotive Engineering from Belarusian National Technical University in Minsk, where he worked successively as Assistant, Associated and Full Professor. In 2007, as a Research Professor, he became an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and in 2008 a Marie Curie Fellow with Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany. Currently he is working at TU Ilmenau with the Automotive Engineering Group as the coordinator of several European industrial-academic projects. In this position, he was coordinator of the European Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network ITEAM on multi-actuated ground vehicles and is coordinating now the European Projects CLOVER, OWHEEL and XILforEV on novel mechatronic systems and electric vehicles.
Valentin Ivanov is a SAE Fellow, member of Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan and the Association of German Engineers. He is a recipient of SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award (USA) and CADLM Intelligent Optimal Design Prize. His research fields are vehicle dynamics, electric vehicles, and automotive control systems.

Submission Deadline: 8 June 2020
Acceptance notification: 17 July 2020
Final paper submission deadline: 7 August 2020

To submit papers for this Special Session, please visit:
https://vppc2020.trackchair.com/track/1916