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	SwRI engineers develop complex hybrid vehicle control systems to optimize performance, fuel economy, and emissions.

Creating and developing successful control systems require attention to details such as:

• Individual subsystems

• Subsystem assemblies

• Subsystem interaction

Engineers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) develop control systems for numerous applications. SwRI has developed a controller known as RPECS (Rapid Prototyping Electronic Controller System) and also does control system development using industry standard systems such as dSPACE.

SwRI puts all the pieces together, including:

• Modeling and simulation

• Rapid prototyping

• System integration

• Calibration

• Production controller specification

• Testing

• Full powertrain component and system modeling and simulation capabilities for conventional and hybrid vehicles

• Performance and emission development in test cell and vehicle

• Automated test cell data acquisition and mapping

• Integrated powertrain control

• Integrated hybrid vehicle control

• In-vehicle networks—CANbus, MODBUS

• Component specification and sourcing

• Wiring and prototype harness design and assembly

• Full-emission certification capability for vehicle- and test cell-based, light- and heavy-duty test cycles

For more information about control systems development capabilities at SwRI or how you can contract with SwRI, please contact Glenn Wendel at gwendel@swri.org or 210-522-2622.
 

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Southwest Research Institute® (SwRI®), headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, is a multidisciplinary, independent, nonprofit, applied engineering and physical sciences research and development organization with 11 technical divisions.

June 16, 2008