Course: Advanced Diploma in Electric Vehicles with focus on Motor, Inverter, EV Architecture & Powertrain

Course duration: 8 Months

Eligibility: Engineering graduates from E&E, ECE, E & I, ICE, Mechatronics, Computer Science Mechanical and Automobile Engineering.

Pre-requisites:Basic knowledge of power electronics, Matlab /simulink, analog & digital electronics, electric motors and operation of test/measuring instruments

1. Objectives

  • To learn about various electronic systems used in electric vehicles
  • Be aware of Trends & technologies use in electrification of new vehicles
  • To understand electro mechanical sub systems used in vehicles and their interdependencies
  • To become an engineer with power electronics embedded product design, development & certification skills as per industry needs

2. Course contents and overview

Will cover Electrical /Electronic (E/E) architecture, sensing technologies, actuation, embedded controller development, Powertrain management, chassis control systems, electric vehicle, body electronics, safety, networking, V2H, V2G, telematics & diagnostics. The course contents are designed keeping the industry requirements in mind. Each student will get the opportunity to learn electric vehicle product design from first principles and have adequate time to learn by designing using industry approved software and hardware development platform. An integral part of this program is to work in teams where each team designing a specific module, this will give the students valuable insights into how professionals work in the industry and the interdependencies across teams to achieve a commercially viable product.

Module-1: Introduction to EV Overview & Impact of environment: 75 (Lecture) +5(Hands on) =80 Hrs.

This module will help students to gather knowledge of EV basic components and its position int understanding is crucial to implement features using power electronics.Overview of Electric Vehicle architecture & configuration—Evolution, current and future trends in architecture EV Overview & Environment EV Architecture:

EV Architecture:
  • BEV
  • HEV
  • PHEV
  • HVAC Architecture
  • Power & Ground distribution schemes
  • Fusing strategy
EV Architecture:
  • IVN
  • OBD
  • OBC (on-board charger)
  • System Architecture consideration
  • Energy Budgeting
  • Battery Sizing
EV Architecture:
  • Vehicle Network ( CAN, KWP, UDS, Flexray)
  • DC-DC converter
  • Performance simulation
  • Range Simulation
Renewable energy for EV
  • Solar
  • V2H or H2V
  • V2G or G2V
  • (Practical’s) Display charts & demo of electric vehicle parts

Module-2: EV Power Train : 70+10=80 Hrs.

This module will provide an overview of powertrain overview/drivetrain and motor controller

Overview of Powertrain
Vehicle Design
Motor
Gearbox
Transmission
Motor
  • Motor Controller/Inverter
  • Selection of automotive IGBT and MOSFET’s
  • FOC
  • SVPWM
Motor Design
  • BLDC
  • IPM
  • SRM
  • W-Axial
  • 3 phase Induction
Gearbox
  • Different kinds of gearboxes
  • Gearbox optimisation
  • SRM
Transmission
  • Different kinds of transmission

Module-3: EV Infrastructure & Battery Engineering : 80 hrs

This module will provide basic understanding of EV charging technology covering working principle, installation scheme, connectivity, and Battery Box Technology. The key takeaway will be clear understanding of various EV charging types and Battery Box Engineering

EV charging
  • Fast charger
  • DC harger
  • AC charger
  • Battery swapping
  • Different charging protocols
  • Chademo
  • CCS2
  • GB/T
  • Customised charging protocols
Battery Box Engineering
  • Battery Management
  • Bus Bar design
  • Battery Pack Design
  • Various Sensors and Sensing methods
  • Battery Safety Standards
  • Thermal Management – Battery

Module-4: EMI/EMC & Functional Safety : 20 hrs

All the vehicle electronic modules and circuits are based on a architecture. But all electronic devices in the vehicle in the vehicle will have EMI/EMC exposure, the devices need to be well produced from EMI/EMC compliance’s to meet the regulatory and safety requirements , Function safety of Software and Hardware is very critical to manage the safety compliance requirements from industry bodies

EMI/EMC compliance
  • Why EMI/EMC in an automobile
  • Basic Requirement
  • Regulatory Requirements
  • Major contributors to EMI/EMC
  • How to address the EMI/EMC challenges
  • Shielding
  • Methods & Materials used for handling EMI/EMC
Functional Safety
  • ASIL-A to D

Module-5: Vehicle , Chassis & System Integration with sensors : 60 Hrs

In this module you will learn the various aspects of vehicle validation, system integration with different kinds of sensors and chassis design optimisation , key takeaways are vehicle validation and chassis design

Vehicle Validation
  • System Integration
  • CAN Networking and Vector Tools Simulation
  • Vehicle Sensors specific to EV
  • What are the various sensors
  • How its interfaced to the ECU’s in the vehicle network
  • Hardware & Software Interfaces & Implementation challenges and examples to solve
Chassis design
  • Battery Positioning
  • Difference between IC Engine Chassis & EV
  • Demo of vehicle modules

Module-6: Wiring harness : 20 hrs

In this module

Wiring Harness and its usage
  • Different connectors
  • Different tools for wiring harness
  • Basic inputs for wiring harness
  • Wiring sizing

Module-7: EV Drivetrain and Test bench : 60 hrs

It is required that automotive electronics shall perform reliably under all operating severities. Also, rapid increase in the sophistication of vehicle automation demands development of new cost effective, reliable and quick testing technologies to understand and evaluate complete electric drive train

3. Course delivery approach

  • Class room lectures: 340 Hrs.
  • Hands on experiments: 80 Hrs.
  • Industry visit: 20
  • Seminar: 80 Hrs. (4Hrs/Wk.)
  • Industry project: 300 Hr
  • Project1: Design and Development of BLDC Motor
  • Project2: Design and Development of BLDC Motor Controller/Inverter
  • Project3: Design and Development of DC Fast Charger meeting EESL Specifications of Chademo or CCS2
  • Project4: Design and Development of BMS(Battery Management Software) for a 48V system
  • Project5: Design and Development of DC-DC converter for a 2Wheeler/E-Auto application

  • Total:840hrs

4. Batch size:20 in 1st batch & subsequent batches 30

5. Equipment & Software: Wiring harness sample, starter motor, Fuse relay module Samples of sensors & actuators as per Hands on MATLAB/Simulink SW-10Licences Reference boards with IDE -5Nos DC motor-2Nos BLDC motor & controller-2Nos Simscape -1Licence Digital storage scope-1No Digital Multi meter-3Nos

Power supply-DC Regulated:

1) Multiple power output (5V/12V/24V upto 100Vs)-5Nos

2) High power 12/24 V output- 1No

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Key Highlights

  • DESIGNED FOR WORKING PROFESSIONALS/STUDENTS
  • INSTRUCTOR LED SESSIONS
  • MENTORSHIP WITH INDUSTRY EXPERTS
  • INDUSTRY ACCREDITED CERTIFICATION
  • COMMUNITY LEARNING
  • PROFESSIONAL PROFILE BUILDING
  • LMS ACCESS
  • 1X1 MENTORING WITH MOCK INTERVIEWS
  • EVERLASTING RELATIONSHIP