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.