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Survey on Designing of Electric Vehicle Instrument Cluster

TL;DR: This survey paper enlists various techniques in terms of hardware and software which can be implemented to design a digital instrument cluster for electric vehicles.
Abstract: Conventional vehicles has been responsible for increasing the pollution levels in entire world. Analysis of climate data has shown that formally stable glaciers have begun to melt which causes rise in sea-level and puts cities near coastline to greater risk of flooding. An environment-friendly substitute for gasoline vehicles is electric vehicles which runs through battery. As some of the control units of electric vehicles vary from gasoline vehicles, instrument cluster development for electric vehicle needs different techniques. There are embedded development boards and microcontrollers developed specifically to serve automobile applications. Also there exists software to develop graphical user interface which can run in embedded boards. This survey paper enlists various techniques in terms of hardware and software which can be implemented to design a digital instrument cluster for electric vehicles.
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01 Jul 2021
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a Virtual Instruments Cluster (VIC) to display functional parameters of a stationary platform used for testing of electric vehicles (EV) in real-time.
Abstract: This paper presents the development of a Virtual Instruments Cluster (VIC) to display functional parameters of a stationary platform used for testing of Electric Vehicles (EV). The EV platform contains a 3-phase asynchronous 55 kW electric motor, a DC-AC motor controller, a 96 Volts LiFePO4 battery pack, a 3.3 kW battery charger and a Battery Management System (BMS). The electronic units exchange data between them using the automotive Controller Area Network (CAN) bus, to which a host computer is also connected. In order to get a real-time, comprehensive and intuitive way of monitoring the multitude of functional parameters of the EV testing platform, the proposed VIC is developed in LabVIEW and uses many graphical gauges. It receives all CAN frames from EV electronic units and decodes the information that user needs for. Also, different operating states and fault alarms of the EV testing platform are visually displayed in real-time. Finally, the virtual instrument can also store the acquired information from the CAN bus, which makes it a reliable tool for long-term monitoring and diagnosis of the EV testing platform.

4 citations

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08 Oct 2022
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors explore a methodology for building user friendly mobile application and digital dashboard which provides vehicle dynamics information to the user so that they may use that information during travel/use and maintenance of the electric vehicle.
Abstract: this paper explores a methodology for building user friendly mobile application (App) and Digital Dashboard which provides vehicle dynamics information to the user so that they may use that information during travel/use and maintenance of the Electric Vehicle. An open-source solution, unlike the traditional end-to-end dashboards or Human Machine Interface (HMI) may lead to widespread adoption. Mobile device applications are also thus becoming an important source of information, control, and motivation for Electric Vehicles (EV) drivers as they are portable and can be equipped with a lot of functionality.
Proceedings ArticleDOI
08 Oct 2022
TL;DR: In this article , the authors explore a methodology for building user friendly mobile application and digital dashboard which provides vehicle dynamics information to the user so that they may use that information during travel/use and maintenance of the electric vehicle.
Abstract: this paper explores a methodology for building user friendly mobile application (App) and Digital Dashboard which provides vehicle dynamics information to the user so that they may use that information during travel/use and maintenance of the Electric Vehicle. An open-source solution, unlike the traditional end-to-end dashboards or Human Machine Interface (HMI) may lead to widespread adoption. Mobile device applications are also thus becoming an important source of information, control, and motivation for Electric Vehicles (EV) drivers as they are portable and can be equipped with a lot of functionality.
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30 Nov 2011
TL;DR: Examination of the issues regarding EV HMI through a study that evaluates two different concepts for an EV instrument cluster finds that participants had problems understanding the EV specific information content independent of concepts, even though they considered the information shown to be the right one.
Abstract: The dissemination of electric vehicles (EVs) is an important step towards a more sustainable transport system, but barriers to adoption persist. Much effort and resources are put into solving battery technology related issues and progress is made continuously. There remain however important matters that have not been equally discussed; the design of user interfaces and human-machine interaction (HMI) of EVs is one.This paper seeks to examine a few of the issues regarding EV HMI through a study that evaluates two different concepts for an EV instrument cluster in order to develop knowledge on (i) what information is relevant to present to the driver of an EV and (ii) how that information should be presented; innovatively or in a more familiar way. Two consecutive user tests, according to a between-subject procedure, were used to test two concepts in a driving simulator. Ten participants, with little or no experience of driving an electric or a hybrid electric vehicle, tested each concept. The participants were asked to drive the EV simulator and to interact with the user interface while different events were triggered, designed so that the participants would experience several of the situations that might appear when driving an EV for a longer period of time. Data was gathered through objective measurements, e.g. time, number if errors etc., as well as through questionnaires and interviewsThe results show that participants had problems understanding the EV specific information content independent of concepts, even though they considered the information shown to be the right one. Both concepts had advantages and disadvantages, most notably that participants expected the vehicle to work like a conventional car when the interface was traditional and that they felt insecure when the interface was innovative.Some of the discovered problems can be attributed to the participants' lack of knowledge and useful mental concepts regarding electricity and batteries, which made understanding the information difficult. More research on how to support EV drivers through design of the HMI given these deficiencies is needed.

52 citations


"Survey on Designing of Electric Veh..." refers background in this paper

  • ...in Salzburg, Austria have conducted study regarding Human Machine Interface issues related to Electric Vehicles [4]....

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  • ...Helena Strmberg et al. in Salzburg, Austria have conducted study regarding Human Machine Interface issues related to Electric Vehicles [4]....

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TL;DR: An assessment model for quantifying the perceived visual complexity (PVC) of an in-vehicle instrument cluster based both on the PVCs of its components and on the integration effect is proposed.

20 citations


"Survey on Designing of Electric Veh..." refers background in this paper

  • ...have researched on ergonomics of new age instrument cluster based on perceived visual complexity [5]....

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Proceedings ArticleDOI
24 Jun 2013
TL;DR: A hardware-in-the-loop-based approach for automotive instrument cluster (IC) development, targeted at supporting engineers and researchers during the development phase of novel interface solutions that are reliable regarding their hardware connectivity and signal communication is proposed.
Abstract: This paper offers a contribution for platform-based evaluation techniques by proposing a hardware-in-the-loop-based approach for automotive instrument cluster (IC) development. An automotive IC interface requires for special attention as it provides the driver with safety-relevant information like speed or state of charge that is critical for the driving situation. As state of the art in-vehicle Human-Machine-Interfaces (HMI) are mostly embedded systems that make time-consuming research and development processes necessary, we propose a development platform that allows for a more rapid interface implementation and analysis. The evaluation platform for ICs (EPIC) is targeted at supporting engineers and researchers during the development phase of novel interface solutions that are reliable regarding their hardware connectivity and signal communication. It consists of a model-based vehicle simulation combined with automotive hardware to enable a real-time vehicle structure through a controller area network (CAN). Interchangeable, Android-based interfaces illustrate the flexibility of the approach and show the operability of the evaluation platform. To illustrate the applicability of the approach, the platform was embedded in an engineering process for an electric vehicle to address the challenge of user interface development.

11 citations


"Survey on Designing of Electric Veh..." refers background or methods in this paper

  • ...A HIL based evaluation platform for Automotive Instrument Cluster Development (EPIC) has been proposed by Sebastian Osswald et al [21]....

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  • ...Hardware-in-the-loop-based evaluation platform for automotive instrument clusters [21]...

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Proceedings ArticleDOI
01 May 2017
TL;DR: This paper brings forward a new control system for granary ventilation with advanced embedded Linux technology, embedded networking technology, and Qt technology that fully realizes functions of intelligent detection of grain condition, automatic control ventilation, local visualized monitoring and remote centralized monitoring.
Abstract: Aiming at realizing intellectualized control of granary ventilation and eliminating the flaws such as low efficiency, technological obsolescence and structural incompleteness in traditional system, this paper brings forward a new control system for granary ventilation with advanced embedded Linux technology, embedded networking technology, and Qt technology. This system uses BeagleBone Black platform as the core communication server, deploys the Modbus embedded network as sensing unit for fetching sensor data and the CANopen embedded network as execution unit for controlling fan devices, and adopts JSON-RPC service as remote communication mechanism. It fully realizes functions of intelligent detection of grain condition, automatic control ventilation, local visualized monitoring and remote centralized monitoring.

6 citations


"Survey on Designing of Electric Veh..." refers methods in this paper

  • ...It was developed as Linux-based gateway in the course of the SocketCAN project by Volkswagen Group Research in Wolfsburg....

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  • ...It enables multiple Linux applications using a standardized interface to access one single CAN controller in parallel, similar to the network stack for common network interface controllers [26]....

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  • ...Open source single-board computers such as Raspberry Pi and Beaglebone Black boards have Linux based operating system....

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  • ...In Linux, CAN is managed by SocketCAN library....

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  • ...Qt cross-platform framework on Windows and Linux [16]...

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01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: Control software in NI Lab VIEW along with Test Stand that controls the simulator to capture various signals, execute the tests and generate test reports is developed.
Abstract: The present work aims at developing a hardware system to read the data displayed by an instrument cluster using image processing in Lab VIEW. Test signals are generated using NI Lab VIEW software and sent to the instrument cluster using CAN. A camera is used to capture an image of the cluster. Th is image is processed using Lab VIEW to extract the reading of the cluster. The value as indicated by the image of the cluster is co mpared to the test signal sent to the cluster. Depending on the difference between the test signal and the output, the cluster's error value is calculated, thus categorizing it as perfect or defective. The scope of present work is also to develop control software in NI Lab VIEW along with Test Stand that controls the simulator to capture various signals, execute the tests and generate test reports.

3 citations


"Survey on Designing of Electric Veh..." refers methods in this paper

  • ...Narayana et al proposed a hardware system which captured the instrument cluster image using image processing in LabVIEW [22]....

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  • ...LabVIEW makes it very easy to build graphical user interface by simply dragging and dropping controls and indicators on the front panel....

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  • ...Property of LabVIEW which makes it valuable for engineers are firstly fast and extensive hardware integration available for everything, from PC based data acquisition boards to software designed radios and FPGA based embedded computer hardware and secondly LabVIEWs graphical approach to programming which means user can program as per the requirements using a flowchart like method called graphical data flow to move data from one function to another....

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  • ...T. L. Narayana et al proposed a hardware system which captured the instrument cluster image using image processing in LabVIEW [22]....

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  • ...A custom user interface can be built using LabVIEW; especially for data acquisition systems....

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