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Description de l'événement |
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International Conference : APE
Paris - Paris
March 25 & 26, 2009
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TOPICS TO BE ADRESSED
They are expected to cover a wide range:
- Presentation of application requirements for passenger vehicles, buses and light duty vehicles
- Description of innovative technical solutions and development tools
- Power levels from 10 W up to 150 KW
- Applications for Internal Combustion Engine Vehicles (ICEV), Hybrid Vehicles (HV) and electrical vehicles (EV)
- Take into account the 5 automotive stresses: Electrical, Thermal, Chemical, Vibration and EMC
APE 2009 focus: Robustness validation
A – Automotive Power Systems
- Automotive requirements for power electrical functions and systems
- Automotive technological trends
- Power electronic vehicle architecture: powertrain alternative solutions, choice of network voltages, gateways between electrical and electronic networks
- Power applications functions and systems: blowers, EPS, x-by-wire, energy generations, battery packs, electrical powertrain
- Power network : stability, protection, distribution, quality
- Validation methodology : procedures, test benches
B - Automotive Power Components (active/passive) and Modules
- Power converters and drives
1bis – Energy efficiency
1ter – Power and energy function protection
- Power Semiconductor devices and modules
- Packaging and integration of power converters: including protection devices…
- Passive components
- New materials for power packaging, cooling, heat transfer
- Harnesses and connectors
- High temperature electronics: design, components, ASICs, testing
C – Mechatronics: from Technologies for integration to Diagnosis
- Actuators & drives
- Mechatronics integration
- Power dissipation management / heat transfer / Cooling
- Preventive diagnosis: failure prognosis, maintenance, thermal fatigue, embedded diagnostic
- Technology standards
D – Robustness, Reliability and Manufacturing
- Reliability, safety and test: limiting failure mechanisms, acceleration factors, high operating temperatures, test methods and tools, predictive reliability tools, dependability, requirement analysis, simulation of electro-thermo mechanical fatigue – Special topic
- Robustness of design
- Electro-magnetic issues: impact of power electronics for in-vehicle architecture, new standards to come, electronic and harness design guidelines
- End of life, recycling and eco-design
- Manufacturing tools and industrial processes
E – Design and validation Tools
- Design and modelling tools for mechatronic: power electronic design, thermal and EMC issues, multi-domain simulation
- Methodology for components, modules, systems and related test benches
- Tools interoperability
Any other paper presented on a topic not quoted above but having scientific, technical or strategic interest will be taken into consideration.
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