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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) perform control system development for numerous vehicles and 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:

  • Early clean-sheet simulations

  • Rapid prototyping

  • System integration

  • Calibration

  • Testing

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

    • RPECS capability

    • Performance and emission development in test cell and vehicle

    • Automated test cell data acquisition and mapping

    • Integrated powertrain control

    • Integrated hybrid vehicle control

    • Multiplexed communications

    • 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 system development capabilities at SwRI or how you can contract with SwRI, please contact Alan Montemayor at amontemayor@swri.org or (210) 522-6940.

Contact Information

Alan Montemayor

Vehicle Research & Development

(210) 522-6940

amontemayor@swri.org

Related Terminology

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dSPACE

early clean-sheet simulations

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system integration

calibration

testing

vehicle integration

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June 16, 2008