Emulation and design of electric and hybrid electric vehicle motor drive systems

开发带有电机和电力电子转换器的复杂系统，如电动汽车中的系统，通常需要很长的准备时间，并依赖于昂贵的模拟工作台。向丰田、通用汽车和日产等大型汽车制造商提供高度专业化的子系统，是小型但创新公司面临的一个重大问题。该项目致力于开发实时仿真器，该仿真器具有适用于机器和功率转换器的模型，这些模型可以从设计和仿真软件中获得，并用于产品开发的功率硬件在环(PHIL)阶段。这些模型将在康科迪亚实验室设计和制造的真实电机和转换器上进行验证。在这种情况下，开发具有足够精度和快速执行时间的机器和转换器模型以在仿真器中使用是至关重要的。将开发一种新的硬件仿真器，适用于仿真电机的性能，而不需要使用电力电子和线性放大器来构建真实的电机。它提供了测试电动和混合动力汽车中使用的真实逆变器和其他变流器以及相关控制器和保护系统的手段。该项目的工业合作伙伴是三家领先的加拿大公司：Infolytica公司、Opal-RT Technologies和魁北克水电研究所(IREQ)。Opal-RT已经是IREQ的战略合作伙伴，并与Infolytica进行了合作。康科迪亚大学的电力电子和能源研究(PEER)小组主要从事工业研发项目。特别是，皮莱教授担任的工业研究教席在魁北克水电公司和NSERC之间每年得到40万美元的支持。该项目直接符合康科迪亚大学致力于工业和社会相关项目的愿景，这也允许在一个备受瞩目的行业培训HQP。

The development of complex systems with electric machines and power electronic converters, such as those found in electric vehicles, usually require long lead times and rely on costly analog benches. This is a major issue faced by small but innovative companies to provide highly specialized subsystems to major car manufacturers such as Toyota, General Motors and Nissan. This project focuses on the development of real-time emulators with the suitable models for machines and power converters that can be obtained from design and simulation software and used in the power-hardware-in-the-loop (PHIL) stage of product development. These models will be verified on real motors and converters designed and built in the Concordia laboratory. In this scenario, it is essential to develop machine and converter models of sufficient accuracy and fast execution time to be used in the emulators. A new hardware emulator will be developed suitable to emulate the performance of an electric machine without the real machine being built by using power electronics and linear amplifiers. It provides the means for testing real inverters and other converters used in electric and hybrid electric vehicles as well as the associated controllers and protection systems. The industrial partners in this project are three leading Canadian companies: Infolytica Corporation, OPAL-RT Technologies and Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Québec (IREQ). OPAL-RT is already a strategic partner with IREQ and have collaborations with Infolytica. The Power Electronic and Energy Research (PEER) group at Concordia University is heavily engaged in industrial R & D projects. In particular, the Industrial Research Chair occupied by Professor Pillay is supported at a level of $400k/year between Hydro-Québec and NSERC. This project fits directly into the vision of Concordia University in working on industrially and socially relevant projects, which also allow training of HQP in a high profile industry.