Piet Vanassche
Triphase, Belgium
Online Electric Vehicle Monitoring
“ecoCity eMotion” 24-25th September 2014, Erlangen, Germany
European Conference on Nanoelectronics and Embedded Systems for Electric Mobility
About Triphase
About Triphase
Founded in 2006,
Spin-off from the
University of Leuven,
World-wide customer
base
Solutions for Rapid
Prototyping and Power-
Hardware-in-the Loop Testing
Boost innovation in the
fields of power electronics and
power systems
Diesel-Electric Delivery Truck
Diesel-Electric Delivery Truck
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PC-based Rapid Control Prototyping of
single and multi-converter applications
PC-based Rapid Control Prototyping of
single and multi-converter applications
20 kHz real-
time control
PC-based Rapid Control Prototyping of
single and multi-converter applications
20 kHz real-
time control
Real-time target (Soft DSP)
controls multiple power modules, measurements and other I/O
General purpose I/O Power modules
with FPGA-based interface
High-speed voltage &
current measurements
Other networks (CAN, ModBus, RS232, etc.)
Fast Ethernet
Real-Time Client-Server
server
client (FPGA)
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send request
for setpoints
Evaluate control
algorithm
send back
result
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Apply result at
start next cycle
20 kHz real-
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Diesel-Electric Delivery Truck
Diesel-Electric Delivery Truck
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System-Wide, Sample-Synchronous Data Access
What To Do with All This Data?!?
Monitoring and
Diagnostics
Model-Based, Online Validation
Trajectory Optimization
Thermal Optimization/Forecast
wheel motors
generator
Fuel Optimization
Conclusions
● Power systems in general and electric vehicles
in particular are a data treasure trove.
● Appropriate communication networks and
protocols can help to unlock that data
● System-wide data can be used for (short-term)
monitoring and (long-term) optimization
Contact and Questions