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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Vehicle-Development-Process"”.
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The UW EcoCAR2 Vehicle Development Process and Vehicle Level Torque Control Strategy Documentation
… sacrificing the consumer acceptability of the vehicle (Argonne National Labratories, 2014). It is the first competition of its kind designed to create automotive technology that can penetrate the mass market and have significant and lasting environmental impact reductions. The technical goals …
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The impact of mass decompounding on assessing the value of vehicle lightweighting
… realization about the need for fuel efficient vehicles. One effective way to accomplish this is through vehicle lightweighting, which can be achieved by material substitution, novel vehicle component design, and changes in processing. Although primary vehicle mass reduction is often associated …
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Achieving world-class perceived vehicle quality through improved engineering and manufacturing tools
Throughout the vehicle development process, automotive manufacturers must work to meet a variety of customer needs. One increasingly important attribute is vehicle exterior perceived quality, which is largely dependent on how well exterior parts fit together. Before vehicles are produced and sold …
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DEVELOPMENT OF A HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLE FOR EFFECTIVE TRAVERSAL OF CONNECTED CORRIDORS
… traversal of a connected corridor, and the vehicle development work done in Year 4 of the EcoCAR Mobility Challenge to enable the testing of one such scheme on Ponce De Leon Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia. Georgia Tech is one of 11 teams participating in the EcoCAR Mobility Challenge, a 4-year …
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Implementation of functional build in the vehicle development and launch process
… acceptable assembly. This validation or tune in process must be done before the product can be sold, and is generally a major step in the launch process. Mean shifts and variance within normal production processes result in differences between design intent (specifications) and actual parts. …
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Identifying customer usage profiles of two-wheeled vehicles
This cumulative PhD thesis shows the development of methods for identifying customer usage profiles of two-wheeled vehicles utilising the vehicle’s onboard sensors. It comprises three papers that have been published to relevant journals. At present, regarding the automotive industry, customer usage …
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Model and Control System Development for a Plug-In Parallel Hybrid Electric Vehicle
The Hybrid Electric Vehicle Team (HEVT) of Virginia Tech is participating in the EcoCAR 3 Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition series organized by Argonne National Labs (ANL), and sponsored by General Motors (GM) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). EcoCAR 3 is a 4-year collegiate …
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Development of a Series Parallel Energy Management Strategy for Charge Sustaining PHEV Operation
The Hybrid Electric Vehicle Team of Virginia Tech (HEVT) is participating in the 2012-2014 EcoCAR 2: Plugging in to the Future Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition series organized by Argonne National Lab (ANL), and sponsored by General Motors Corporation (GM) and the U.S. Department of Energy …
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Prüfplattform für mechatronisch ausgestattete Fahrzeuge in Entwicklung und Produktion
In nowadays’ upper-class vehicles more than 80 - 100 control devices and over 10 communication bus systems are integrated. The increasing number of electronical systems with the need of interactive communication generates a high system complexity and with this an exponential growing error …