Customizing Electric Cars
Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute researchers have converted a Toyota Scion xB 2001 Nian electric buses, will serve as a test platform for new community-based battery for dell electric car, conversion, and business design approach.
The car is a new research project as part of, ChargeCar by Illah Nuer Ba, assistant professor of robotics technology leadership. The project to explore ways to cost-effective electric vehicles in the specific needs of customized personal travel, while the efficiency of electric vehicles can be powered, and use artificial intelligence control power of the battery life.
“Today the majority of electric vehicle design and engineering from top to bottom, to meet the performance of natural gas powered car, said:” Nourbakhsh. “Our goal is to completely change a different approach - the needs, conditions and real people’s daily habits, first analyzes the urban commuter travel, and then use this” eco-tours, the development of electric cars suitable for each one-way. “The researchers estimate that a typical visitor from Pittsburgh can save energy costs, when 80 percent of natural gas from a car converted to electric vehicles.
ChargeCar rather than the development of new vehicles, but a knowledge base can be used to convert natural gas powered vehicles to use existing technologies. Pittsburgh researchers are working with a mechanism to develop, in the vehicles to switch to the community level as well as the transformation of a set of “recipes of professional knowledge.”
The project is an important vehicle structure, the so-called Intelligent Power Management, which uses artificial intelligence to manage energy and the traditional flow of electric vehicle batteries and equipment, known as the super-capacitors. Super-capacitor and a high energy density electrochemical capacitors are generallyVGP-BPS9, , VGP-BPS9/B, VGP-BPS9/S , VGP-BPS9A, VGP-BPS9A/B used to start the engine, tanks and diesel trucks. Because it can quickly store and release large amounts of electricity can be used as a super-capacitor between the battery pack and motor vehicles, buffers, to improve vehicle response, while reducing the loading / unloading to shorten the battery life cycle.
“Many people have commented on, as a buffer in the cell super capacitor used, but we will also use artificial intelligence to control the power to download and store, said:” Nourbakhsh. “Based on drivers and customary way, intelligent power management system will decide whether to power motors or batteries and super capacitors development will determine where to store the regenerative braking system to produce electric vehicles slow down or fall down the mountain.”
To determine the best way to energy management will be one of the main objectives ChargeCar. The researchers estimate that intelligent controller for electric vehicles can be recovered during braking and super-capacitors can be reduced 56 per cent reduction in battery charge the battery heating energy, accounting for 48 percent - thus reducing battery life - up by 53.
The U.S. “The biggest cost of ownership of electric vehicles is batteries, said:” Nourbakhsh. “Smart energy management will save money initially, this low-battery and a super small cost. While also improving efficiency and saving money to extend battery life.” Through customization, to equip them with the required minimum number of cells of each owner to switch to a specific, ChargeCar save some homeowners money.
In the Toyota Scion xB will serve as the development of intelligent energy management, measure the battery life and the refinery conversion technology test platform for the technology.
ChargeCar project has established a national data center passenger , people all over the country travel can store data through the GPS and upload to the site. This site may use these data show that individual for your travel and the cost of gasoline and electric power, there could be wearing the number of cells in a super-access storage. The researchers will use the database may be based on individual switch solution, which will make the database available to all researchers and electric car enthusiasts.
The team included Geleigebo Denard top battery ChargeCar, cooperation and Hersh, Qiao Xixia Shapiro Research Engineer, Senior Programmer Kelisiba Utley research, project scientist, the Brown researcher at Intel Labs, Pittsburgh Jason Campbell of Principal researchers and students Vibhava Sreekanti, Paul and Matt columns Duescher