SwRI: Vehicle Research and Development, Control System Development

  image of complex hybrid vehicle control systems used by SwRI to optimize performance, fuel economy, and emissions
 

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 Rapid Prototyping Electronic Controller System (RPECS) 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.


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