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Valentin Ivanov Consortium

Extension of the consortium

After the project amendment, two new beneficiaries have joined the OWHEEL consortium.

Politecnico Di Torino (POLITO) is one of the leading European universities in the field of automotive engineering. POLITO, represented by Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale, will support the consortium with knowledge transfer on motion control systems for automated vehicles.

MEGARIDE is a highly innovative SME in the field of tire and vehicle testing technology. With MEGARIDE on board, the consortium would like to expand the testing programme to collect important tire and vehicle data for the assessment of the project outcomes and train the staff in advanced validation and verification procedures

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OWHEEL Workshop at UTC in Compiègne

On 28-29.03.2024 the OWHEEL consortium has organised the project workshop at the Université de Technologie de Compiègne, where the project results were presented to wide audience. In addition, the knowledge exchange in the area of electrified and automated mobility has been successfully carried out with colleagues from several French universities. The detailed programme of workshop can be found here: <https://intelligent-vehicles-summer-school.webnode.fr/program/>

Photo: Viktar Beliautsou (TUIL), Alessandro Victorino (UTC), Valentin Ivanov (TUIL), Binh-Minh Nguyen (UTOKYO), Hiroyuki Fuse (TUIL-UTOKYO)

Valentin Ivanov Secondments

UNIMORE secondment to University of Pretoria

Photos: On the left, Cor-Jacques and Alessandro with the experimental setup. On the right, with Gerrit van de Wetering visiting the production plant of AFRIT based in Rosslyn, Pretoria

Alessandro Chiari, a PhD student from Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE) in Italy, has recently completed a two months secondment to the Vehicle Dynamics Group (VDG) at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. He worked together with Dr Cor-Jacques Kat from VDG. The secondment is part of the European Union funded project OWHEEL within the framework of Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange Programme.

During the secondment a novel characterization procedure for the bushings that connect the lower control arm to the chassis was investigated. An experimental setup was assembled to determine the stiffness and damping characteristics of the bushings. The procedure does not require the bushings to be dismounted from the arm, and it also allows to measure the rotational characteristics. The results will be employed to improve the multibody simulations and the design of the lightweight components. An industrial visit to AFRIT, a leading trailer manufacturer in Africa, concluded a successful secondment.

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Test Sessions in Tokyo

The research team from TU Ilmenau visited the University of Tokyo for a joint study on vehicle-drone interaction in terms of new technologies for road parameter recognition and collaborative motion control of electric vehicles. The results of these secondments will be presented in new papers under preparation.

Valentin Ivanov Secondments

The first secondment in the University of Pretoria

Alessandro Chiari, PhD student from the MilleChili Lab at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, has completed a secondment period of two months to the Vehicle Dynamics Group at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. The research carried out was focused on the interaction between vehicle dynamics and structural analysis to achieve an enhanced prediction of the loading conditions on the suspension components, useful to perform accurate optimizations from a lightweight viewpoint.

Photos: Left: Dr. Cor-Jacques Kat (University of Pretoria), Alessandro Chiari (Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia) and Prof. Schalk Els (University of Pretoria); Right: Alessandro Chair with the test vehicle of the Vehicle Dynamics Group

Valentin Ivanov Secondments

University of Pretoria’s secondment to Tenneco

Dr Cor-Jacques Kat from the Vehicle Dynamics Group at the University of Pretoria, South Africa recently completed a month secondment to Tenneco in Belgium. During this secondment, laboratory and proving ground tests were conducted at Tenneco’s Monroe Engineering Technical Center, Sint-Truiden, Belgium and Ford’s proving ground in Lommel, Belgium. The aim of the tests were to better understand difference thresholds of whole-body vibration and how it can be used in vehicle suspension design. Dr Kat also attended the mid-term project meeting hosted by UNIMORE in Modena, Italy.