Multi-vehicle auxiliary power interconnection technology study

埃尔文海默集团北美有限公司（EHG）是加拿大市场领先的休闲车制造商，目前正在寻求与西部大学晋江博士的研究小组合作，研究车载辅助动力系统互联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。目前，EHG希望探索包括车对车互联等功能的可能性，以便多辆车可以相互共享电力，以及车对电网功能，允许将多余的电力输出到电网。研究项目的目的是系统地确定潜在的互连用例、约束和拓扑，然后开发高级设计，作为未来产品开发活动的起点。蒋博士的研究小组已经发表了广泛的关键话题的兴趣，包括混合电源管理，光伏和微电网管理，与理论和实验的贡献，因此可以提供该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先地位的关键因素，并展示了将复杂概念推向市场的工程和生产能力。该公司为该项目提供了工程人员的时间，包括深度会议和半月更新，以及车辆和光伏/电池子系统的访问。后续的研究项目预计，执行一个更深入的调查，从这个项目的有希望的结果，或追求额外的研究课题，是公司感兴趣的。此次合作将使EHG能够利用西部大学的专业知识，为该领域未来的产品创新奠定坚实的基础，这最终将有助于增加HQP的就业，并增加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.