Abstract
For the validation of vehicular Electrical Distribution Systems (EDS), engineers are currently required to analyze disperse information regarding technical requirements, standards and datasheets. Moreover, an enormous effort takes place to elaborate testing plans that are representative for most EDS possible configurations. These experiments are followed by laborious data analysis. To diminish this workload and the need for physical resources, this work reports a simulation platform that centralizes the tasks for testing different EDS configurations and assists the early detection of inadequacies in the design process. A specific procedure is provided to develop a software tool intended for this aim. Moreover, the described functionalities are exemplified considering as a case study the main wire harness from a commercial vehicle. A web-based architecture has been employed in alignment with the ongoing software development revolution and thus provides flexibility for both, developers and users. Due to its scalability, the proposed software scheme can be extended to other web-based simulation applications. Furthermore, the automatic generation of electrical layouts for EDS is addressed to favor an intuitive understanding of the network. To favor human–information interaction, utilized visual analytics strategies are also discussed. Finally, full simulation workflows are exposed to provide further insights on the deployment of this type of computer platforms.
Highlights
As part of product design in the industry, computer simulation nowadays plays a major role given its benefits such as high analysis capacity, prototyping reduction, improved product quality and attractive cost-efficiency [1]
Computer simulation has been permeating the industry as it contributes to higher system analysis, greater robustness, prototyping reduction and economic savings
This has been the case of some vehicular systems such as aerodynamics, autonomous driving, energy management and electrified traction
Summary
As part of product design in the industry, computer simulation nowadays plays a major role given its benefits such as high analysis capacity, prototyping reduction, improved product quality and attractive cost-efficiency [1]. Relevant software development cornerstones to deploy EDS visualization and simulation is exhibited in [7] On this issue, when talking about key pillars that can significantly enhance the capabilities of simulation tools, web and cloud-based architectures are currently an accelerating trend given their capacity to boost collaboration, increase flexibility and tackle complex product-oriented designs [9]. This tendency has been applied with varying architecture complexity depending on the magnitude of the projects, going from electric-electronic circuits schematics [11,12,13,14] and arriving to power system analysis, cost optimization and state estimation as reference [15] elaborates This gives us an insight of the relevance of web-based technologies to develop a flexible, scalable, collaborative and easy-to-maintain simulation tools to face the challenging design demands of vehicular.
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