uOttawa EcoCAR
The Faculty of Engineering, University of Ottawa has a great vision of designing and realizing a cutting-edge features and functionality “ Smartware on a Demonstrator Wheel” car that meet customer expectations in performance, creature comforts, and aesthetics .
The team and collaborators are inclined to select a hybrid vehicle architecture with eyes set on advanced controls, mechatronics, and software to develop future vehicles for critical design in terms of mass, mileage, safety, and cost based on a Faculty’s previous vehicle experience.
Brunsfield Engineering Student Projects and Entrepreneurship Centre
The experience is based on the uOttawa Supermileage team (founded in 2008) that travels every year to participate in the SAE Supermileage Competition, an international challenge where teams attempt to drive a track in a gasoline-powered race vehicle using as little fuel as possible. In 2010, the team had placed second, with an impressive fuel-efficiency rate of 1,496 miles per gallon.
uOttawa Supermileage team
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Ottawa
EcoCAR is a theme project with
several tasks.
Before proceeding into the
research task,
a
real-time
modular
modeling and development
simulation in Matlab/Simulink
for powertrain components will
be implemented in order to
optimize vehicle fuel economy,
performance, and emissions in
both virtual and
hardware-in-the-loop
environments using data from
real car. This will be followed
by the development of a
“controller-motor” optimization
model based on an innovative
induction machine and an
optimization algorithm developed
at the university.
The team will also develop a
testbed for
interconnected vehicles and
vehicle to smart grid focused on
road safety, efficiency and
environment based on the
Faculty’s research strength in
smart sensing, wireless
communications, battery
charging/discharging,
sustainable and renewable
energy.
A snapshot from a a previous student competition
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Kylowave Universal Energy Conversion System (K-ECS) One Kit, Multiple Labs!
Identification of a DC Motor (Video)
The development and implementation of innovative and distinctive equipment for teaching laboratory courses in the disciplinary areas of renewable energy and mechatronics is a challenge . The situation is even more challenging in the context of concrete projects encountered in laboratory experiments. A great deal of equipment is required if students are to perform a wide range of experiments. Typical existing equipment includes mostly single type of topology for dedicated functionality. Therefore, a high investment is necessary to acquire all the equipment necessary for thorough learning! A “generic K-ECS equipment” is capable of addressing the above-mentioned limitations. Its reconfigurable nature allows various experiments to be performed on a single piece of equipment, thereby reducing the cost and space for establishing a laboratory.
Kylowave and Green Engineers
collaborated to develop, test,
and implement a multipurpose lab
kit that can serve several labs
including control systems, power
electronics, mechatronics, and
renewable energy.
Several Circuit Topologies of the K-ECS
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