Research Fellow in Control of Vehicles with Advanced Electrified Powertrains

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Mechanical Engineering Sciences
Location:  Guildford
Wage: 
£36,024 to £39,347
each year
Put up Kind:  Full Time
Closing Date: 
23.59 hours BST on Friday 12 April 2024
Interview Date: 
To be confirmed
Reference:  013224

The College of Surrey is a worldwide neighborhood of concepts and folks, devoted to life-changing schooling and analysis. 

We’re formidable and have a daring imaginative and prescient of what we need to obtain – shaping ourselves into probably the greatest universities on this planet, which we’re attaining via the abilities and endeavour of each worker.  

Our tradition empowers folks to attain this purpose and to collectively, and individually, make an actual distinction.  

The function

Purposes are invited for a Analysis Fellow place that focuses on designing and creating superior management algorithms to reinforce the power effectivity and security of the subsequent era of electrical autos and their validation by way of {hardware} within the loop testing and superior simulations. This function additionally contains modelling and simulating electrical autos and their parts for control-oriented purposes and actual time implementation of the management options.

The place is a part of the EM-TECH Horizon Europe venture, which focuses on creating management options aiming to considerably scale back power loss and enhance automobile efficiency leveraging progressive electrical machine know-how options for on-board and in-wheel powertrains. Due to the presence of business companions and universities from throughout Europe throughout the consortium, the venture can have the chance to check its proposed options utilizing a sophisticated distributed X-in-the-loop testing structure.

Working below the management of Dr Umberto Montanaro, Dr Davide Tavernini and Prof Patrick Gruber, you can be answerable for the day-to-day analysis duties in accordance with the venture plan. It will embrace: 

Creating and implementing superior management algorithms for autos with electrical powertrains to reinforce automobile efficiency, security, power saving and luxury; 

Supporting superior simulations and modelling of electrical powertrains to optimise effectivity and efficiency; 

Collaborating with a workforce of consultants in varied fields, together with electrical/digital engineering, mechanical engineering, and laptop science; 

Taking part in venture conferences, presenting analysis findings, and contributing to venture stories and publications.

About you

The profitable candidate can have a robust background in experimental testing, programming (MATLAB/SIMULINK) and management, and may have a PhD in a related self-discipline comparable to mechanical, automotive or electrical/digital engineering. Additionally, expertise within the following areas is extremely fascinating:

• Management improvement and implementation, together with neural networks 
• Actual-time fast management prototyping programs (e.g., dSPACE)
• Automobile dynamics management 
• Instrumentation and data-logging
• Digital twins
• Electrical powertrains 

Be part of our dynamic and inclusive workforce on the Centre for Automotive Engineering throughout the College of Mechanical Engineering Sciences. We actively search candidates from all backgrounds, valuing the distinctive views they create to our analysis, which, in flip, results in progressive options. 

Our Centre specialises in cutting-edge analysis areas, with a selected give attention to automobile dynamics and the management of autonomous programs. Preliminary contract for the Analysis Fellow place is about for a length of 12 months, with extensions topic to thorough efficiency assessments, availability of venture funding, and particular venture necessities.

The best way to apply

To use, please add CV and canopy letter together with your software on the College of Surrey Web site. For casual enquiries please contact Dr Umberto Montanaro at [email protected] .

Please word, it’s College Coverage to supply a beginning wage equal to Stage 3.6 (£34,980) to profitable candidates who’ve been awarded, however are but to obtain, their PhD certificates.  As soon as the unique PhD certificates has been submitted to the native HR Division, the wage might be elevated to Stage 4.1 (£36,024).