Do you want to simulate electric vehicles, without building a model from scratch? Then this is your opportunity.

The ElectroChemical Commercial Vehicle (ECCV) simulation platform has been developed over several years where projects have investigated different aspects of fuel cell and battery electric vehicles, the elements of these aspects have been integrated into a library of submodes and system models. This workshop provides an opportunity to learn about the models and get an introduction to how you can get started and simulate different vehicles in the simulation platform.

One purpose has been to enable researchers and students that work on elements in the electromobility area to start simulating the vehicle as a complete system and get a tool into which they can incorporate their research into the vehicle context. Another purpose has been to enable simulations of the impact of thermal system design on vehicle energy consumption and performance.

The simulation platform is focused on the energy needed of a commercial vehicle in a driving mission over undulating roads and mountains, in different climates and incorporates the NASA tropospheric model to describe variations in ambient conditions at different altitudes. It includes component models for several subsystems. For example:

– Battery models with voltage and current dynamics based on dynamic data from datasets on commercial cells.

– Fuel cell system models with fuel cell core and necessary balance of plant components.

– Coolant system components including various heat exchangers, and effects such as heating with direct heat and heatpumps, as well as access to various cooling media components.

– Electric Machines, from simple ideal machines to more advanced machines with lumped losses.

– Power electronics, DC/DC converters (connecting battery, electric machine, fuel cell, and Low voltage systems to the DC bus), capacitor model for the DC bus.

In this workshop we will go through the basic component models in the library and the thoughts behind the library design. Then we will go through a sequence of complete vehicle examples that are included in the library as quick start examples. After the presentations of the library you will have a possibility to start testing the simulation models that are available among the quick start examples on your own computer.

–> You need to bring a computer with Matlab/Simulink but no other toolboxes are necessary.

Preliminary program

09.30-10.15 Coffee and sandwich

10.15-10.20 Welcome and introductions

10.20-12.00 Walk through of the library components and available system models

12.00-13.15 Lunch

13.15-15.00 Hands on-work with the simulation models in the platform

15.00-15.15 Coffee

15.15-16.00 Continued hands-on work and follow up

Date            14 May at 10:00-16:00

Location     Hybrid workshop at Linköping University and Teams (further details will be provided those who register)

Please, click HERE to register for the workshop.

Register by 9 May at 23:59.