ADVISOR 2.1: a user-friendly advanced powertrain simulation using a combined backward/forward approach

Author

Wipke, Keith B. ; Cuddy, Matthew R. ; Burch, Steven D.

Author_Institution

Nat. Renewable Energy Lab., Golden, CO, USA

Volume

48

Issue

6

fYear

1999

fDate

11/1/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1751

Lastpage

1761

Abstract

ADVISOR 2.1 is the latest version of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory´s advanced vehicle simulator. It was first developed in 1994 to support the US Department of Energy hybrid propulsion system program and is designed to be accurate, fast, flexible, easily sharable, and easy to use. This paper presents the model, focusing on its combination of forward- and backward-facing simulation approaches, and evaluates the model in terms of its design goals. ADVISOR predicts acceleration time to within 0.7% and energy use on the demanding US06 to within 0.6% for an underpowered series hybrid vehicle (0-100 km/h in 20 s). ADVISOR simulates vehicle performance on standard driving cycles between 2.6 and 8.0 times faster than a representative forward-facing vehicle model. Due in large part to ADVISOR´s powerful graphical user interface and Web presence, over 800 users have downloaded ADVISOR from 45 different countries. Many of these users have contributed their own component data to the ADVISOR library

Keywords

digital simulation; electric vehicles; electrical engineering computing; graphical user interfaces; software packages; ADVISOR 2.1; National Renewable Energy Laboratory; US Department of Energy; Web presence; acceleration time prediction; advanced vehicle simulator; combined backward/forward approach; energy use prediction; hybrid propulsion system program; powerful graphical user interface; powertrain simulation; standard driving cycles; underpowered series hybrid vehicle; user-friendly; vehicle performance simulation; Acceleration; Graphical user interfaces; Intelligent vehicles; Laboratories; Libraries; Mechanical power transmission; Propulsion; Renewable energy resources; US Department of Energy; Vehicle driving;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9545

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/25.806767

Filename

806767