Vehicles

Research is needed when electricity replaces diesel

Did you think that all it takes is changing an excavator’s diesel engine for an electric one? Well, it’s not that simple. The hydraulics can actually be adapted to the many advantages of the electric engine.

Robots aid in remanufacturing

Remanufacturing is a way to preserve the value of products that have already been manufactured. Researchers at Linköping University, LiU, have shown the potential of automation in repair and remanufacturing.

Fluid mechanics to improve fuel consumption

Cars today must be certified for fuel consumption and emissions. Petter Ekman shows in his doctoral thesis how car manufacturers can make considerable resource savings for estimations of aerodynamics effects even from small geometrical details.

A hydraulic pump powered by electricity

Fossil-free applies also to heavy mobile working machines. Liselott Ericson, Flumes, has received SEK 11.6 million to collaborate with industry in developing technology that uses a hydraulic pump in electrically operated working vehicles.

Autonomous vehicles learn to find the best path

Kristoffer Bergman, doctoral student in Automatic Control, describes in his licentiate thesis methods to enable autonomous vehicles find the fastest or most energy-efficient path from starting point to a destination, even if obstacles are in the way.

Trucks can also manoeuvre autonomously

Oskar Ljungqvist, PhD student at the Division of Automatic Control at LiU, describes in his licentiate thesis the development of a system for motion planning and control, that enables trucks with trailers to move autonomously.

WASP doctoral student with a focus on safety

The many sensors with which cars are now fitted can be used to create active safety systems. In his licentiate thesis, Victor Fors examines how a car behaves when it is at the very limit of what it can achieve when avoiding a collision.

LiU alumnus on top position in China

Shanghai is home to several of world’s most highly ranked universities, one of them led by LiU alumnus Professor Zhihua Zhong. Tongji University is ranked number one in the world in the field of urban planning.

Collaboration at its very best

The ten-year, highly productive collaboration between Linköping University, ABB Corporate Research, ABB Robotics, Saab Aeronautics and Scania is to be continued and extended in the Vinnova-funded competence centre, LINK-SIC.

Your grocery bag reveals how you drive

If you shop for ecological food, you’re also better prepared to drive an electric hybrid car in the best possible way. But being trained in ecodriving could almost be a disadvantage, as researchers from LiU and VTI show in a study.

Great potential to charge electric cars

One million electric cars could be charged by households at night with the electric installations that exist today, as shown by calculations carried out by researchers from LiU and VTI. But a broad investment in charging infrastructure is needed.

A transport vehicle of the future

Emissions from the transport sector can be drastically reduced with more streamlined trucks. Researchers have calculated, and road carrier owner Erik Alfredsson has built an initial version of the transport vehicle of the future.

LiU research stops exhaust cheating

The Volkswagen scandal has sped up the work to produce new legal requirements for emissions while driving under actual conditions. With the LiU researchers’ method, new reliable tests can be developed quickly and easily.

Smart control provides reduced fuel consumption

A diesel-electric powertrain can give capacity to heavy vehicles which by far exceeds that of vehicles with conventional combustion engines. Researchers at Linköping University study how to exploit the full potential of diesel-electric drivelines.

New methods for drive cycles

Researchers at Linköping University have developed new methods of generating and transforming drive cycles. “A powerful and effective tool for vehicle development” says Peter Nyberg, who presents the methods in his doctoral thesis.

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