Designing an energy measurement system for an electric vehicle competition - From a student project to a successful race

Author

Talvitie, Joonas P. ; Karkkainen, Tommi J. ; Koskinen, Jukka ; Niukkanen, Manu ; Strom, Juha-P. ; Silventoinen, Pertti ; Kuisma, Mikko

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Lappeenranta Univ. of Technol., Lappeenranta, Finland

fYear

2013

fDate

6-9 May 2013

Firstpage

528

Lastpage

532

Abstract

In this paper, the design and implementation of an energy measurement system for an electric vehicle competition is described. The system consists of PC-based software and a processor-controlled stand-alone measuring unit with an analog front-end, an SD memory card, a radio link, and a USB interface. The work was carried out as a part of a university project course. The designed system was experimentally tested both in the laboratory and in an actual race.

Keywords

electric vehicles; electrical engineering computing; energy measurement; memory cards; microprocessor chips; peripheral interfaces; radio links; PC-based software; SD memory card; USB interface; analog front-end; electric vehicle competition; energy measurement system design; processor-controlled stand-alone measuring unit; radio link; student project; university project course; Batteries; Battery charge measurement; Current measurement; Energy measurement; Vehicles; Voltage measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), 2013 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4621-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/I2MTC.2013.6555473

Filename

6555473