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Students Building Virtual Cars with National Instruments Tools

May 11, 2009 in Video Blogs by sbauman | No comments

In this installment of the Green Garage blog, we speak with Paul Mandeltort from National Instruments. As a former competition student, Paul provides unique insight to the core problems that EcoCAR teams are working to solve. Today’s teams are challenged with bringing incredibly advanced designs to competition in record time. Paul discusses how students are meeting the challenge by using NI tools to build “virtual cars” using an advanced industry technique known as hardware-in-the-loop simulation.

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News: EcoCAR Teams Get New Design Technologies from Sponsors

May 5, 2009 in EcoCAR News by sbauman | 1 comment

EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge today announced that three of the competition’s Platinum Sponsors, dSPACE, National Instruments and The MathWorks, are providing more than $2,300,000 of cutting edge hardware and software tools to help student teams design the green cars of the future. EcoCAR teams learn real-world automotive engineering practices through the use of Model-Based Design and graphical system design technologies that include hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and software-in-the-loop (SIL), which help to bring the students’ vehicle visions from concept to the road. Students will unveil their final designs at the competition finals in Toronto on Friday, June 12, 2009.

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Making Math Cool Again With The Mathworks

May 1, 2009 in Video Blogs by sbauman | 2 comments

From time to time, Inside the Green Garage blog will spotlight EcoCAR sponsors with “video blogs” that provide more personal looks at the people and companies behind EcoCAR and the Green Garage. Hopefully these videos blogs will spark more discussion about the technologies in use throughout the competition and lead to more questions about the team designs.

For our first few video blogs, we arranged to speak with sponsors attending SAE Congress 2009 in Detroit. Our first conversation is with Paul Smith and Shaun Kalinowski of The Mathworks. They shed light on the importance of “model-based design” and explain the concepts of hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and software-in-the-loop (SIL). Pay particular attention to the Paul’s answer about “making math cool again.”

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MTU EcoCAR Team Models to Make Debut

April 29, 2009 in Team Posts by ggguest | 3 comments

Michigan Technological University Cover Page

Andrew Best Ponders MTU's Future

‘Modeling’ is the word chosen to describe EcoCAR year 1. Modeling is, as Dr. John Beard puts it, the best way to “avoid ‘Monster Garaging’ the MTU Saturn Vue Hybrid in year 2″. Physical representations, component characteristics, and control strategies are the ‘models’ most important to successful simulations. Although the MTU team did not receive any calls from Vogue or Glamour magazines, it feels as though its models are attractive, nevertheless. The MTU team is geared up to present its Hardware-In-Loop (HIL) simulations for competition ’09.
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Greetings From Virginia Tech

April 24, 2009 in Team Posts by ggguest | No comments

Virginia Tech Poster for EcoCAR

Virginia Tech Poster for EcoCAR

The Hybrid Electric Vehicle Team of Virginia Tech (HEVT) is looking forward to the EcoCAR competition in June. As Year one comes to a close, HEVT is very busy preparing for the competition in Toronto. HEVT is currently focusing on the trade show display and the hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) deliverable. HEVT team members have already drafted trade show display options. At team meetings, HEVT collectively chose a specific layout. Read the rest of this entry »

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