Design of an Electric Vehicle

Title: Mini Project on Vehicle Direction Detection Aim: Development of a Vehicle Direction Detection model in Simulink based on the provided requirement specification document. The project only deals with model development. All the model subsystems have been correspondingly tagged with their requirement specification document.…

Aim: To create the side fender of the car along with the drip area and other mounting points such as Sill Mount, Bumper Mount, A-Pillar mount. Introduction: A fender is the curved portion of the car’s body that sits over and houses the wheels.  The purpose of a fender is pretty simple. Its purpose is to keep mud, rocks,…

Aim: Design and assembly of an Automobile Hood. Introduction: A hood or commonly known as a bonnet, is a hinged cover over the engine compartment of modern passenger cars. The main purpose of a hood is to allow access to the engine compartment for maintenance and repairs. Apart from this, it also provides safety to…

Benchmarking:  Benchmarking is defined as the process of measuring products, services, and processes against those of organizations known to be leaders in one or more aspects of their operations. Benchmarking provides necessary insights to help you understand how your organization compares with similar organizations,…

Aim: To create the door arm rest from the given Class A surface and to perform the draft analysis. Input Surfaces: Methodology: First, step to create a plastic component from a Class A surface, is to check the quality of the class A. Check for any open profile and check for the boundry of the surface, it should not be…

Aim: To create a Switch Bezel Plastic Component through a given Class A Surface and perform Draft Analysis on the final plastic component and to create a core and cavity for the same. Objectives: Creation of Tooling Ass Creation of Class Band Class C surface Creating a solid part out of surface modelling Draft Analysis…

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Aim: To create the tooling Axis for the given Fan Cover Model and to perform the Draft Analysis on the model in CATIA V5. Need for Draft Analysis: When developing parts for plastic injection molding, applying a draft (or a taper) to the faces of the part is critical to improving the moldability of your part. Without it,…

Aim: For a 10 cell series lithium ion battery model, simulate the thermal effects and SOC at different temperatures, charge & discharge rates using MATLAB. Theory: EVs, HEVs and PHEVs are powered by lithium-ion cells which are fined together in a battery pack with particular series and parallel arrangements.…

Battery Thermal Management System  1.1. System Functions  The battery thermal management system should be equipped with four essential functions:  Cooling: Due to inefficiency, battery cells will not only generate electricity but also heat. This heat should be rejected form the battery pack to ensure the…

Aim: To plot the discharge characteristics of a Li-ion battery for a UDDS drive cycle. Model-Based Analysis in MATLAB Simulink Model: In the model below, we have used a 7.2 V and 5.4 Ah Lithium-ion battery. The UDDS cycle contains speed vs time, which here is converted into the current vs time profile. The current…

Aim: Modelling a fuel cell-powered electric vehicle. Objective: Modelling of a fuel cell-powered car and to comment on the results obtained. Theory:  Fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) are powered by hydrogen. They are more efficient than conventional internal combustion engine vehicles and produce no tailpipe…

Type of Battery Cathode Anode  Electrolyte Separator Reactions Involved Lithium Cobalt Oxide (LCO) `Li_xCoO_2` Lithilated Graphite, `Li_xC_6` `LiPF_6` & Ethylene Carbonate Graphene At Anode: `LiC_6-> xLi^++ xe^(-) +C_6` At Cathode: `Li_(1-x)CoO_2+xLi^++xe^(-)->LiCoO_2` Overall Reaction: `C_6+LiCoO_2…

Aim: To model an Electric Vehicle in Simulink. Objective: to make a simple and low run time model using individual component models. to check out performance parameters: Speed, SOC, Current, distance, etc with various drive cycles. to play with: Motor power, Vehicle Body, Polling Resistance, Air Drag, Weight inputs,…

Aim: System Level simulaton of an all terrain vehicle. Objective: To prepare a technical report on the ATV model explaining the model properties and results. Theory:  A continuously variable transmission (CVT) is an automatic transmission that can change seamlessly through a continuous range…

Task 1: Washing Machine Model Aim: Implement control logic of a “washing machine” using Stateflow as per given sequence:  If the power supply is available, the system gets activated  If the Water supply is not available, stop the process & indicate through LED Soaking time should be 200s…

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Task 1 Aim: Make a Simulink model of Doorbell…

Speed control of a DC Motor using BJT H- bridge Following Simulink model is an example showing Speed control of a DC Motor using BJT H- bridge. Description: This example shows the simulation of an H-bridge used to generate a chopped voltage and to control the speed of a DC motor.  The Bipolar Junction Transistor…

ADVISOR tool in MATLAB is used for simulating the following cases: TEST CASE 1: Range of an EV for cargo mass 500kg Vehicle type: EV_defaults_in Cargo mass: 500kg other parameters as default: on simulating for the above vehicle parameters and for FTP cycle, Since the single-cycle runs for a total of 17.77km, taking 3 number…

DETAILED REPORT ON THE GENETIC ALGORITHM CHALLENGE 1. Aim: To optimize the stalagmite function using the genetic algorithm and to find out the global maxima. 2. Theory: "A genetic algorithm is a search heuristic that is inspired by Charles Darwin’s theory of natural evolution. This algorithm reflects the…

DETAILED REPORT ON THE SECOND ORDER ODE 1. AIM: The aim of this challenge is to solve a second-order ordinary differential equation and simulate the motion of a pendulum obtained as a result of the solution obtained. 2. OBJECTIVES: To solve a second order ODE. To understand how an ODE is solved using MATLAB tools. To program…

DETAILED REPORT ON THE RANKINE CYCLE SIMULATOR 1. AIM: The objective here is to simulate an Ideal Rankine Cycle 2. Theory: The Rankine cycle is an idealized thermodynamic cycle of a heat engine that converts heat into mechanical work while undergoing a phase change. It is an idealized cycle in…