Energy Efficiency of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles, Labs

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Program Description:
The University of Alabama at Birmingham's Vehicle and Robotics Engineering Laboratory is research focused and seeks to approach vehicle and robotic mechatronic systems in partnership with both academia and industry. Serving undergraduates, graduates, and postgraduate research, the lab develops advanced academic and professional development courses and programs at all educational levels in the areas of vehicle and robotic mechatronic systems engineering.

Course Description:
This Energy Efficiency of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles, Labs course was developed by University of Alabama at Birmingham through seed funding from the Center for Advanced Automotive Technology (CAAT). The goal of this course is to provide analytical and hands-on skills on defining and testing power losses in powertrain systems of electric vehicles (EV) and hybrid-electric vehicles (HEV).

The course contains introductory lectures to present power losses and energy efficiency in EV and HEV. Laboratory experiments and computer workshops, the main portion of the course, follow the lectures. The laboratory test modules are built with the use of hardware and tests including ordinary and planetary gear sets, gear power loss test rig, electric motors, two unmanned ground vehicles with individual wheel drives (3-wheeler and 4-wheeler), etc. National Instruments LabVIEW and myRIO are in use for practical laboratory work. Computer workshops facilitate the understanding of HE concepts and operational modes and develop skills in simulating vehicle characteristics.

Course Contents:
This course is composed of 15 one-week modules. These modules include 1) Introduction to Electrical and Hybrid-Electrical Vehicles, 2) Different HEV concepts and operational modes, 3) Vehicle gear transmission and gear drives, 4) Vehicle gear drives, 5) Power losses in gear drives, 6) Electrical motors/generators, 7) and 8) Electrical motors - open loop control, 9) Batteries and ultra-capacitors, 10) Tires and tire terrain interaction/power losses, 11) Mechanical and electrical power in electrical 3-wheeler robot, Part I. Robot design and operation, 12) Mechanical and electrical power in electrical 3-wheeler robot, Part II. Mechanical and electrical power estimation, 13) Mechanical power losses in tires of an unmanned ground vehicle with 4-independently/electrically driven wheels, 14) Electrical unmanned ground vehicle: tires/terrain Interaction and power losses, Part I. Robot design and electrical drives of the wheels, and 15) Electrical unmanned ground vehicle: tires/terrain Interaction and power losses, Part II. Tire slippage power loss and its electric equivalent. There is also an extra advanced module, Power Converters, included.

Included educational materials for this course are a syllabus and project outcomes, a LabView introduction for instructors, PowerPoint presentation slides, and documents and files associated with labs and workshops. The labs and workshops provide students with hands-on experience with simulation software, which is required to open some of the files. Chapter 10, Diode Rectifiers, of the book Power Electronics Handbook (Third Edition) edited by Muhammad Rashid was also used in this course, but is not included in the .zip attachment.

The 2-page syllabus includes a description of the course and a course content outline. For orientation purposes, users should begin with the Energy Efficiency of HEV anf EV_Syllabus_FINAL.pdf.

Below is a list of files contained within the zip attachment. The size of each file is included in parenthesis.

Energy Efficiency of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles, Labs (131 files, 218.6MB)

Course Syllabus and Project Outcomes
- Description of Project Outcomes Doc (Description of Project Outcomes.docx 17KB)
- Description of Project Outcomes PDF (Description of Project Outcomes.pdf 79KB)
- Energy Efficiency of HEV and EV Syllabus Doc (Energy Efficiency of HEV and EV_Syllabus_FINAL.docx 24KB)
- Energy Efficiency of HEV and EV Syllabus PDF (Energy Efficiency of HEV and EV_Syllabus_FINAL.pdf 81KB)
LabVIEW Introduction for Instructor's Study
- LabView & myRIO Intro Slides (LabView & myRIO Intro_Slides_FINAL.pptx 4.1MB)
- Example 1 (Example 1.vi 8KB)
- Example 2 (Example 2.vi 8KB)
- Example 3 (Example 3.vi 9KB)
- Example 4 (Example 4.vi 7KB)
- Example 5 (Example 5.vi 8KB)
- Example 6 (Example 6.vi 9KB)
- Example 7 (Example 7.vi 207KB)
- Example 8 Differential Equations (Example 8_Differential Equations.vi 188KB)
- Photocell demo aliases (Photocell demo.aliases 80B)
- Photocell demo lvlps (Photocell demo.lvlps 85B)
- Photocell demo lvproj (Photocell demo.lvproj 19KB)
- Photocell Only (Photocell Only.vi 74KB)
Week 01 Intro Safety
- Reference Vehicle Power Management (Reference_Vehicle Power Management.pdf 21.3MB)
- Safety Rules in VREL Doc (Safety Rules in VREL.docx 49KB)
- Safety Rules in VREL PDF (Safety Rules in VREL.pdf 85KB)
- Week 01 Lectures 1 & 2 PDF (Week_01_Lecture 1&2_Vehicle Configurations_Safety.pdf 1.3MB)
- Week 01 Lectures 1 & 2 (Week_01_Lecture 1&2_Vehicle Configurations_Safety.pptx 4.5MB)
Week 02 HEV concept and operational modes
- HEV Operational Modes Manual Doc (HEV_OperationalModes_Manual_FINAL.docx 596KB)
- HEV Operational Modes Manual PDF (HEV_OperationalModes_Manual_FINAL.pdf 503KB)
- HEV Operational Modes Solutions Doc (HEV_OperationalModes_SOLUTION.docx 16KB)
- HEV Operational Modes Solutions PDF (HEV_OperationalModes_SOLUTION.docx 54KB
- Hybrid Model 1 Parallel Torque Couple (HybridModel1_ParallelTorqueCouple.vi 53KB)
- Hybrid Model 2 Parallel Speed Couple (HybridModel2_ParallelSpeedCouple.vi 54KB)
- Hybrid Model 3 Series (HybridModel3_Series.vi 57KB)
- Hybrid Model 4 Power Split (HybridModel4_PowerSplit.vi 78KB)
- Image Files (14 files 54KB)
Week 03 Vehicle gear drives
- Week 03 Lecture 1 & 2 Gear drives PDF (Week_03_Lecture 1 & 2_Gear drives_FINAL.pdf2.8MB)
- Week 03 Lecture 1 & 2 Gear drives (Week_03_Lecture 1 & 2_Gear drives_FINAL.pptx 3.2MB)
Week 04 Vehicle gear drives
- Gear Transmission Lab Manual Doc (Gear Transmission_Lab Manual_FINAL.docx 8.2MB)
- Gear Transmission Lab Manual PDF (Gear Transmission_Lab Manual_FINAL.pdf 928KB
- Old Course Materials (4 files 31.2MB)
Week 05 Power losses in gear drives
- Gear Efficiency Lab Manual Doc (Gear Efficiency_Lab Manual_FINAL.docx 7.8MB)
- Gear Efficiency Lab Manual PDF (Gear Efficiency_Lab Manual_FINAL.pdf 1.2MB)
Week 06 Electrical motors and generators
- Week 06 Lectures 1 & 2 Motors and Generators PDF (Week_06_Lecture 1 & 2_Motors and Generators_FINAL.pdf 777KB)
- Week 06 Lectures 1 & 2 Motors and Generators (Week_06_Lecture 1 & 2_Motors and Generators_FINAL.pptx 2.4MB)
- References for Instructor (8 files 16.9MB)
- MATLAB for Instructor (1 file 216KB)
Weeks 07-08 Electrical motor
- Week 07 Lectures 1 & 2 Motors and Generators (Week_07_Lecture 1 & 2_Motors and Generators_FINAL.pdf 927KB)
- Weeks 07-08 DC Open Loop Control (11 files 11.5MB)
Week 09 Batteries and ultracapacitors
- Week 09 Lectures 1 & 2 Batteries PDF (Week_09_Lecture 1 and 2_Batteries_FINAL.pdf 789KB)
- Week 09 Lectures 1 & 2 Batteries FINAL (Week_09_Lecture 1 and 2_Batteries_FINAL.pptx 2.9MB)
- References for Instructor (2 files 2.1MB)
Week 10 Tires and tire-deformable terrain interaction
- Week 10 Lectures 1 & 2 Tire Terrain PDF (Week_10_Lecture 1 & 2_Tire Terrain_FINAL.pdf 834KB)
- Week 10 Lectures 1 & 2 Tire Terrain (Week_10_Lecture 1 & 2_Tire Terrain_FINAL.pptx 2.8MB)
- References for Instructor (9 files 64,5MB)
Weeks 11-12 NI 3-Wheeler
- DaNI Lab Manual Doc (DaNI Lab Manual_FINAL.docx 2.5MB)
- DaNI Lab Manual PDF (DaNI Lab Manual_FINAL.pdf 1.3MB)
- DaNI Lab (10 files 4MB)
- Teleop Starter Kit 2.0 for Instructor (8 files 210 KB)
Week 13 Tire Terrain interaction
- Handout for Students Doc (Handout for Students_FINAL.docx 275KB)
- Handout for Students PDF (Handout for Students_FINAL.pdf 396KB)
- Tire Terrain workshop PDF (Tire_Terrain workshop_FINAL.pdf 1.4MB)
- Tire Terrain workshop (Tire_Terrain workshop_FINAL.pptx 2.2MB)
- Tire Terrain Workshop Part 1 (Tire_Terrain_Workshop_Part_1.m 4KB)
- Tire Terrain Workshop Part 2 (Tire_Terrain_Workshop_Part_2.m 2KB)
- Tire Terrain Workshop Part 3 (Tire_Terrain_Workshop_Part_3.m 3KB)
Weeks 14-15 Tire Terrain interaction
- Tire Terrain Interaction Lab Manual Doc (Tire-Terrain Interaction_Lab Manual_FINAL.docx 4MB)
- Tire Terrain Interaction Lab Manual PDF (Tire-Terrain Interaction_Lab Manual_FINAL.pdf 1.3MB)
- UGV Data (UGV Data.xlsx 111KB)
- Code (12 files 2.1MB)
Week 15 Power convertors Extra Material
- Week 15 Lectures 1 & 2 PDF (Week_15a_Lec1&2_MCC COPY.pdf 1.1MB)
- Week15 Lectures 1 & 2 (Week_15a_Lec1&2_MCC COPY.pptx 2.1MB)