Multi-vehicle auxiliary power interconnection technology study

欧文·海默集团北美公司(EHG)加拿大市场领先的休闲车制造商，正寻求与西方大学Jin Jiang博士的研究小组合作，研究其车辆上辅助动力系统互连的潜在技术解决方案。这些车辆采用先进的电力系统，包括光伏阵列和锂电池，但目前的产品只能连接到电网充电的目的。目前高度保密，EHG希望探索包括车辆到车辆互连等功能的可能性，以便多辆车可以彼此共享电力，以及车辆到电网功能，以允许将多余的电力输出到电网。该研究项目的目的是系统地识别潜在的互连用例，约束和拓扑结构，然后开发高层次的设计，可以作为未来产品开发活动的起点。Jiang博士的研究小组在混合动力管理、光电子学和微电网能源管理等关键课题上进行了广泛的研究，在理论和实验方面都有贡献，因此可以提供公司正在寻求的专业知识。EHG认识到技术创新是保持其市场领导地位的关键因素，并已展示了将复杂概念推向市场的工程和生产能力。该公司正在支持该项目，工程人员将有时间进行深入研究和半月更新，并获得车辆和光伏/电池子系统。后续的研究项目预计，无论是执行一个更深入的调查有前途的结果，从这个项目，或追求额外的研究课题，是感兴趣的公司。这种合作将使EHG利用西方大学的专业知识，建立一个坚实的基础，为未来的产品创新在这一领域，这将最终有助于增加HQP的就业和增加流入加拿大经济的出口收入。

The Erwin Hymer Group North America, Inc. (EHG), a market leading Canadian manufacturer of recreationalvehicles, is seeking to engage with the research group of Dr. Jin Jiang at Western University to investigatepotential technological solutions for interconnecting the auxiliary power systems on board their vehicles. Thesevehicles incorporate advanced power systems, including photovoltaic arrays and lithium batteries, however thecurrent offerings are only capable of connecting to the grid for charging purposes. Currently highlyconfidential, EHG would like to explore the possibility of including features such as vehicle-to-vehicleinterconnections, so that multiple vehicles can share power with each other, and vehicle-to-grid features toallow excess power to be exported to the grid. The intent of the research project is to systematically identify thepotential interconnection use cases, constraints, and topologies, and then to develop high level designs that canserve as a starting point for future product development activities. Dr. Jiang's research group has publishedextensively on the key topics of interest, including hybrid power management, photovoltaics, and microgridenergy management, with both theoretical and experimental contributions, and can therefore provide theexpertise that the company is seeking. EHG recognizes that technological innovation is a key element inmaintaining their market leadership position, and has demonstrated the engineering and production capacity totake sophisticated concepts to market. The company is supporting the project with engineering staff time forboth deep-dive sessions and semi-monthly updates, and with access to vehicles and photovoltaic/batterysubsystems. Follow-on research projects are anticipated, either to perform a more in-depth investigation ofpromising results from this project, or to pursue additional research topics that are of interest to the company.This collaboration will allow EHG to leverage the expertise at Western University to establish a solidfoundation for future product innovations in this area, which will ultimately contribute to increasedemployment of HQP and increased export revenue flowing into the Canadian economy.