VESI/FUTURE Meeting, The Shard, London - 18th March 2016

The final joint VESI/FUTURE seminar was held on Friday 18th March 2016 on the 17th floor of the London Shard. There were over 80 attendees from industry, academia, and government. The keynote address came from the actor and presenter, Robert Llewellyn, who shared his passion for hybrid and electric vehicles. Please find below the agenda, the presentations for both projects, and photos from the day.

Agenda 

FUTURE (The Fundamental Understanding of Technologies for Ultra Reduced Emission Vehicles) Presentations:

• The big picture - Dr Stefano Longo (Cranfield)
• Electrochemical energy storage - Dr Greg Offer (Imperial College)
• Fuel Cells  - Nick McCarthy (Loughborough)
• Power Electronics and Transmission - Dr Xin Zhang (Sheffield)
• Electrical Machines - Dr Nuwantha Fernando and Peter Armstrong (Oxford)
• Reduced Order Modelling - Prof Keith Burnham (Coventry)
• Control Optimisation and Diagnosis - Dr Stefano Longo (Cranfield)

VESI Presentations:

• Introduction and Overview of VESI - Prof Phil Mawby (Warwick)

• Demo 1: Construction of an Integrated Non-Rare Earth Permanent Magnet Motor  - Prof Patrick Luk (Cranfield) + Prof Volker Pickert (Newcastle) Associated video of ferrite motor

• Demo 2: Thermal and Electrical Integration of Power Conversion Systems  - Prof Phil Mellor (Bristol) + Prof Andrew Forsyth (Manchester)

• Demo 2: High power density power electronic building block for automotive applications - Prof Mark Johnson (Nottingham) + Dr Lee Empringham (Nottingham)

• Demo 3: Integrated on-board battery charging using multiphase machines and power electronics - Prof Emil Levi (Liverpool JMU) Associated video of the integrated on-board battery charging system

Photos from the event

Delegates	Introductions	Robert Llewellyn, keynote speaker
Keynote speaker with Rob Thring and Phil Mawby	A FUTURE presentation	Lunch
Viewing posters	Dr Nandor Bodo with his poster	Viewing posters
Prof Phil Mawby presenting VESI	VESI Theme 1 on semiconductors	Prof Patrick Luk presenting Demo 1
Motors presentation	Prof Volker Pickert presenting	Prof Andrew Forsyth presenting Demo 2
Prof Mark Johnson presenting Demo 2	Prof Emil Levi presenting Demo 3

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VESI/FUTURE Meeting, The Shard, London - 14th January 2015

The third joint VESI/FUTURE seminar was held on Wednesday 14th January 2015 on the 17th floor of the London Shard. There were over 70 attendees from industry, academia, and government, including a keynote address from Ian Turner from the Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV). Please find below the agenda, the presentations for both projects, and photos from the day.

• Agenda 
• Welcome and Keynote - Ian Turner, Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV) 
  

FUTURE (The Fundamental Understanding of Technologies for Ultra Reduced Emission Vehicles) Presentations

• Introduction and Overview of Developing FUTURE Vehicles Project - Prof Rob Thring (Loughborough) 
• Operational and degradation modelling of lithium ion batteries - Dr Greg Offer (Imperial) 
• PEM fuel cell performance and degradation modelling - Jiayi Gu (Loughborough) 
• Integration and reliability of HEV power electronic systems - Dr Jun Cai & Dr Xin Zhang (Sheffield) 
• Designing robust electrical machines - Dr Dave Howey (Oxford) 

• Data driven approaches for diagnostics and prognostics - Dr Malgorzata Sumislawska (Coventry) 

• Loosely coupled hardware in the loop testing for electric vehicle powertrains - Dr Stefano Longo (Cranfield) 

VESI Presentations

• Introduction and Overview of VESI - Prof Phil Mawby (Warwick) 
• Analysis and design of non-rare-earth traction motor and drive - Dr Weizhong Fei (Cranfield) and Dr Niall McGlashan (City) 
• Advances in compact wound components - David Hewitt (Sheffield) and Dr Rafal Wrobel (Bristol) 
• Integrated on-board battery charging - Ivan Subotic (Liverpool JMU) 

The London Shard	View from the 17th floor	South Lecture Theatre
Introductions	Keynote address by Ian Turner from OLEV	Attendees mingle
Greg Offer (Imperial)	P. Gadd (Innovate UK), G. Salisbury (EPSRC), Rob Thring	Keith Pullen, Volker Pickert, Qing-Chang Zhong
Poster session	Poster session	PhD students/RAs from Sheffield and Bristol
John Reeve (Fluxsys) and Pete James (Lyra)	Prof Andrew Forsyth (Manchester)	Phil Mawby (Warwick) and Will Drury (Ricardo)
R. Nash (Zytek), I. Turner (OLEV), P. Gadd (Innovate UK)	Newcastle University PhD students	Attendees in South Lecture Theatre
Phil Mawby (Warwick)	Weizhong Fei (Cranfield)	Niall McGlashan (City)
Rafal Wrobel (Bristol)	Dave Hewitt (Sheffield)	Ivan Subotic (LJMU)

 

VESI Project Management & Technical Meeting, Manchester - 7th April 2014

Presentations were given by each theme. The slides from the meeting can be viewed below:

• Theme 1: Devices 
• Theme 2: Design Tools 
• Theme 3: Packaging 
• Theme 4: Motors (Newcastle) 
• Theme 4: Motors (Cranfield) 
• Theme 5: Converters 
• Theme 6: Passives 

 

 

THE FUTURE & VESI SEMINAR - 14th January 2014

Following last year's success, another joint seminar was held on Tuesday 14th January 2014 at Loughborough University for two EPSRC (IDP5) funded projects - FUTURE (The Fundamental Understanding of Technologies for Ultra Reduced Emission Vehicles) and VESI (Vehicle Electrical Systems Integration).

Please find below the agenda and the various presentations for both projects:

• Agenda
• Presentations from the FUTURE project
  • Introduction and Overview
  • WP1.1 Batteries and Supercapacitors
  • WP1.2 Fuel Cells and Degradation
  • WP2.1 Power Electronics and Transmission
  • WP2.2 Electric Machines
  • WP3.1 Developments in Reduced Order Modelling
  • WP3.2 Optimization and Control Design
• Presentations from the VESI project
  • Introduction and Overview
  • Vehicle-to-Grid Communications
  • Packaging and Integration
  • Converter Topologies