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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