Model-based system engineering design of a versatile control test bench of an electric vehicle’s powertrain for educational purpose

Abstract

Nowadays, electric vehicle has attached significant attention because of the increasingly stringent exhaust emission policies all over the world. However, a lot of research efforts are still devoted to develop and innovate on the electric traction systems. In high-quality education, especially engineering education, topics concerning the vital and actual concerns should comprise more than theoretical knowledge, in purpose to close the relationship between the current technologies and the learner’s circumstances through giving a practical technical expertise and training in the sphere of overall engineering competences. This article presents the first phase regarding designing and developing a test bench of a fully electric vehicle's Powertrain used for research and educational purposes, model-based systems engineering (MBSE) is utilized as a methodology to achieve this goal thorough the CESAM architecting and modelling framework. Utilizing the aforementioned methodology, an operational standpoint architecture of the electric Powertrain’s test bench is developed and presented as the first phase of the system’s design.