Wednesday, September 28, 2011 10:00 AM ET

This webinar covers new approaches to modeling and simulation for hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) and fully electric vehicle (EV) applications with a particular emphasis on power electronics design. HEVs and EVs present many new design challenges to engineers: They are complex multidomain, multi-body systems. In this webinar, multidomain and multi-body simulation techniques are used to place the power electronics components and systems into the context of the entire vehicle as it operates dynamically. That is, the power electronics are simulated in the same environment as the IC engine (if present), batteries, electric motors, driveline, tires, and chassis operating in three dimensions. FTP and EPA drive-cycles are applied to the vehicle model to determine the loading of the power electronics and the effect of various control strategies on overall metrics, like fuel efficiency. Symbolic computation techniques are used to automatically produce very fast model code for real-time simulation. This unified approach to full-system modeling and simulation results in more accurate vehicle models that are produced faster and yield better system-level insight.

Presenters:

Paul Goossens, VP of Application Engineering, Maplesoft Paul Goossens directs the Applications Engineering Group that supports Maplesoft's new line of engineering modeling products. A mechanical engineer by background, Paul has over 20 years of experience in both engineering and software business management. Past positions included senior management positions for companies in engineering modeling solutions and high-performance real-time simulations.

Dr. Sam Dao, Application Engineer, Maplesoft Dr. Dao received his PhD degree in Mechatronics from the Dept. of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He is currently an Application Engineer at Maplesoft. Dr. Dao has been involved in many research projects including multiple robot networking, hybrid electric vehicle modeling, and battery modeling.

Moderator:

Dexter Johnson Analyst at Cientifica, a business intelligence company for emerging technologies Author and Editor of several market reports on nanotechnology Contributing editor for IEEE Spectrum's Tech Talk Program Director for numerous international conferences on nanotechnology, fiber optic