Project name: Dougal
Whole Vehicle Whole Lifecycle Electrical Design Analysis
Start date: 1st January 2000 Finish date: 31st December 2002
Funding
EPSRC IMI Grant £215,704 & non-public funding of £291,900
Total funding: £528,175
Staff
Chris Price, Neal Snooke, Richard Shipman, Stuart Lewis
Collaborating organisations
Objectives
The aim of this research is to develop electrical simulation to be efficient enough to accommodate a model of a whole vehicle electrical system, and to integrate the different kinds of simulation used, so that a mixed granularity simulation can be performed seamlessly throughout the design lifecycle. The purpose of the simulation is automated design analysis (FMEA, sneak circuit analysis, design verification) using the most accurate information available at that point in the design process.
The project will:
- Develop an automated FMEA tool based on numerical simulation
- Investigate the best way of achieving whole vehicle simulation
- Apply whole vehicle simulation to relevant design analysis problems
- Explore the links between different design analyses throughout the design process
- Experiment with mixed granularity simulation
- Produce mixed granularity design analysis tools
- Evaluate the results of the project against industrial case studies