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Centre for Automotive Research and Sustainable Mobility;Hybrid/Electric powertrain and Vehicle Laboratory (CARS-HEV@PoliTO)

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Scientific domain PE8: Products and Processes Engineering
Keywords Automotive Computing Electronics ITS
Home partner institution (POLITO) Polytechnic University of Turin
Website

Website

Technical staff available Yes
Remote access details No
Remote access available No
Open to external users Yes
Equipment

Hardware:

  • 6 m diameter screen (210 deg.)
  • 3 projectors
  • Modified Automotive cockpit
  • Steering wheel motor

Software:

  • Vehicle Dynamics – Real Time Simulation
  • Traffic and sensor modelling

Instrumentation of 1 + 1 vehicle for:

  • Validation of sensor and actuators for assisted and autonomous driving
  • Implementation and validation of control strategies for autonomous vehicles
  • V2V and V2X field tests

Test Bench for conventional, hybrid and electric vehicles dedicated to the experimental tests of complete vehicles:

  • Control Strategies for the energy management of conventional, hybrid and fully electric vehicles
  • HIL of autonomous and connected vehicles
  • Energy consumption referred to homologation and other relevant driving cycles
  • Test Bench for conventional, hybrid and electric Vehicles dedicated to the experimental characterisation of:
  • Complete Hybrid Powertrains (P0-P4) with ICE installed
  • Complete Hybrid Powertrains (P0-P4) with equivalent e-motor replacing the ICE
  • Powertrain Components and Subsystems
Open access to updated information database No
Online booking system details In development
Online booking system available No
Description

The aim of the CARS Centre is to stimulate multidisciplinary research, training and technology transfer in the automotive and Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) sectors.

The complexity and rapid evolution of technologies applied to automotive and Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) requires a heterogeneous set of skills, developed in different disciplines. Starting from this assumption, the CARS Centre aims to build, within the Politecnico di Torino, an environment in which multidisciplinary research and training activities can contribute to the creation of innovation and technology transfer, in an area with a strong industrial and entrepreneurial vocation that has been the cradle of the national automotive industry.