The project titled VIrtual Platform for real time testing of electric vehicles with improved EneRgetic performances (VIPER) aims to create a real-time platform based on mathematical and experimental models, through a user-friendly and customized virtual interface, which simulates the behavior and (electromagnetic, thermal, structural) phenomena characterizing the operation of an electric vehicle (EV) in order to improve its energy performances.
The main physical components of an EV (consumers - propulsion, direction, brake etc. - and sources - batteries and ultracapacitors) exist as independent systems at Technical University of Cluj-Napoca. This project will connect all of these components by establishing an appropriate communications network and optimal energy management using real-time control techniques to minimize torque bursts (and vibrations and noise) by using Processor concepts in Loop (PiL), Hardware in the Loop (HiL), and Rapid Control Prototyping (RCP). Real-time measurements will be the basis for validating / correcting existing models, or introducing new and unifying them in a virtual reality platform (using Prescan, Simulinkg, dSPACE, and products carried out by the project implementation team).
If we could visualize the above mentioned information, it look like in the image below.
