Browsing Systems Design Engineering by Author "McPhee, John"
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A 3D ellipsoidal volumetric foot–ground contact model for forward dynamics
Brown, Peter; McPhee, John (Springer, 2018-04-01)Foot–ground contact models are an important part of forward dynamic biomechanic models, particularly those used to model gait, and have many challenges associated with them. Contact models can dramatically increase the ... -
Automated topology optimisation of hybrid electric vehicle powertrains
Ing, Adam H.; McPhee, John (Inderscience publishers, 2015-11-04)Gasoline and electric powertrain components can be connected in numerous configurations to create hybrid powertrains. Owing to the exponential increase of permutations as the number of components increases, a framework to ... -
A battery hardware-in-the-loop setup for concurrent design and evaluation of real-time optimal HEV power management controllers
Sharif Razavian, Reza; Lashgarian Azad, Nasser; McPhee, John (Inderscience publishers, 2013-11-03)We have developed a battery hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) setup, which can expedite the design and evaluation of power management controllers for hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) in a novel cost- and time-effective manner. The ... -
Body segment parameters of Paralympic athletes from dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry
Laschowski, Brock; McPhee, John (Springer, 2016-09)This research represents the first documented investigation into the body segment parameters of Paralympic athletes (e.g., individuals with spinal cord injuries and lower extremity amputations). Two-dimensional body segment ... -
A Comparative Analysis of Route-Based Energy Management Systems for Phevs
Taghavipour, Amir; Vajedi, Mahyar; Azad, Nasser L.; McPhee, John (Wiley, 2015-07-29)Plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) development seems to be essential step on the path to widespread deployment of electric vehicles (EVs) as the zero-emission solution for the future of transportation. Because of their ... -
Design and evaluation of a predictive powertrain control system for a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle to improve the fuel economy and the emissions
Taghavipour, Amir; Azad, Nasser L; McPhee, John (SAGE, 2014-09-30)In this article, a power management scheme for a plug-in power-split hybrid electric vehicle is designed on the basis of the model predictive control concept of charge depletion plus charge sustenance strategy and the ... -
Design and evaluation of a real-time fuel-optimal control system for series hybrid electric vehicles
Sharif Razavian, Reza; Taghavipour, Amir; Lashgarian Azad, Nasser; McPhee, John (Inderscience publishers, 2012)We propose a real-time optimal controller that will reduce fuel consumption in a series hybrid electric vehicle (HEV). This real-time drive cycle-independent controller is designed using a control-oriented model and ... -
Design and evaluation of an observer-based disturbance rejection controller for electric power steering systems
Mehrabi, Naser; McPhee, John; Azad, Nasser L. (SAGE, 2015-08-13)The goal of this paper is to develop an observer-based disturbance rejection electric power steering (EPS) controller to provide steering assistance and improve the driver’s steering feel. For the purpose of control design, ... -
Development of a Fuzzy Slip Control System for Electric Vehicles with In-wheel Motors
Jalali, Kiumars; Uchida, Thomas; McPhee, John; Lambert, Steve (SAE International, 2012-04-16)A two-passenger all-wheel drive urban electric vehicle (AUTO21EV) with four direct-drive in-wheel motors and an active steering system has been designed and developed at the University of Waterloo. A novel fuzzy slip control ... -
Development of a Path-following and a Speed Control Driver Model for an Electric Vehicle
Jalali, Kiumars; Lambert, Steve; McPhee, John (SAE International, 2012-04-16)A two-passenger all-wheel-drive urban electric vehicle (AUTO21EV) with four in-wheel motors and an active steering system has been designed and developed at the University of Waterloo. In order to evaluate the handling and ... -
Development of an Advanced Fuzzy Active Steering Controller and a Novel Method to Tune the Fuzzy Controller
Jalali, Kiumars; Uchida, Thomas; McPhee, John; Lambert, Steve (SAE International, 2013-04-08)A two-passenger, all-wheel-drive urban electric vehicle (AUTO21EV) with four direct-drive in-wheel motors has been designed and developed at the University of Waterloo. An advanced genetic-fuzzy active steering controller ... -
Development of an Advanced Torque Vectoring Control System for an Electric Vehicle with In-Wheel Motors using Soft Computing Techniques
Jalali, Kiumars; Uchida, Thomas; Lambert, Steve; McPhee, John (SAE International, 2013-04-08)A two-passenger, all-wheel-drive urban electric vehicle (AUTO21EV) with four direct-drive in-wheel motors has been designed and developed at the University of Waterloo. A 14-degree-of-freedom model of this vehicle has been ... -
Development of an Integrated Control Strategy Consisting of an Advanced Torque Vectoring Controller and a Genetic Fuzzy Active Steering Controller
Jalali, Kiumars; Uchida, Thomas; McPhee, John; Lambert, Steve (SAE International, 2013-04-08)The optimum driving dynamics can be achieved only when the tire forces on all four wheels and in all three coordinate directions are monitored and controlled precisely. This advanced level of control is possible only when ... -
Dynamic modeling of electrochemical systems using linear graph theory
Dao, Thanh-Son; McPhee, John (Elsevier, 2011-12-01)An electrochemical cell is a multidisciplinary system which involves complex chemical, electrical, and thermodynamical processes. The primary objective of this paper is to develop a linear graph-theoretical modeling for ... -
Foot–ground contact modeling within human gait simulations: from Kelvin–Voigt to hyper-volumetric models
Sharif Shourijeh, Mohammad; McPhee, John (Springer, 2015-12)This study describes the development of a multibody foot–ground contact model consisting of spherical volumetric models for the surfaces of the foot. The developed model is two-dimensional and consists of two segments, the ... -
Inverse Dynamics Modelling of Paralympic Wheelchair Curling
Laschowski, Brock; Mehrabi, Naser; McPhee, John (Human Kinetics, 2017-01-13)Paralympic wheelchair curling is an adapted version of Olympic curling played by individuals with spinal cord injuries, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, and lower extremity amputations. To the best of the authors’ ... -
Math-based spark ignition engine modelling including emission prediction for control applications
Asl, Hadi Adibi; Fraser, Roydon A.; McPhee, John (Inderscience, 2015-04-22)A complete spark ignition (SI) engine model is a multi-domain model including fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, combustion, electrical, and mechanical sub-models. The complexity of these models depends on the type of analysis ... -
A model-based approach to predict muscle synergies using optimization: application to feedback control
Sharif Razavian, Reza; Mehrabi, Naser; McPhee, John (Frontiers Media, 2015-10-06)This paper presents a new model-based method to define muscle synergies. Unlike the conventional factorization approach, which extracts synergies from electromyographic data, the proposed method employs a biomechanical ... -
Nonsmooth Modeling of Vibro-Impacting Euler-Bernoulli Beam
Vyasarayani, Chandrika Prakash; Sandhu, Sukhpreet Singh; McPhee, John (Hindawi, 2012-06-17)A new technique to simulate nonsmooth motions occurring in vibro-impacting continuous systems is proposed. Sticking motions that are encountered during vibro-impact simulation are imposed exactly using a Lagrange multiplier, ... -
A novel micromechanical model of nonlinear compression hysteresis in compliant interfaces of multibody systems
Masoudi, Ramin; McPhee, John (Springer, 2016-07)A micromechanical model of nonlinear hysteretic compression between interacting bodies of multibody systems, covered with fibrous structures, has been created and validated experimentally in this work. As an application, ...