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Internship - Thermal management elec. components with Model Predictive Control

Posted 26 Mar 2024
Work experience
0 to 1 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
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Degree level
Required language
English (Fluent)
Start date
1 September 2021

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Graduate Internship - Thermal management of electrical components using Model Predictive Control

Helmond

Fulltime

Which team will you become part of?

You will be part of the multidisciplinary thermal management system (TMS) team. TMS is one of the most complex systems in an electrical vehicle due to its interaction with crucial components of the vehicle and the goal to ensure safe and efficient operation of the electronics and cabin comfort. In an EV thermal control can have a significant impact on the vehicle range and driver experience, so it is a growing area of significance within the automotive industry. Since the TMS has a strong interaction with the other systems in the vehicle, multidisciplinary collaboration and intensive testing of interaction is important for an efficient overall solution. You will work closely with control, thermal, software and testing engineers within the TMS team to develop your solution for conditioning the temperature of all the electrical components. Besides support from the TMS team, you will get guidance from Lightyear’s Performance & Control domain, which is our group of control engineers that takes care of all control (related) work over the various systems in the Lightyear One.

Your personal mission

Your task will be related to the coolant circuit of the TMS system, designed to keep the temperature of the battery, motors, inverters and the on-board charger within the specified operation limits. The components all have different targets and may require either heating or cooling. Since at Lightyear we are making the most efficient car possible, it is important to achieve the temperature targets with minimal energy consumption over the considered use cases. This, of course, has to be achieved under actuator and safety constraints which poses a challenging control problem.

Within the project you will define an optimization problem for the system at hand taking into account the energy used to condition the components to the right temperature. You will design an MPC controller and compare its theoretical performance to the implemented controller on the Lightyear One for one of the operating modes. Afterwards, you will extend the optimization problem to include multiple operation modes and design an appropriate controller. Of course, all controllers you develop eventually should be tested with hardware in the loop.

Requirements in order to achieve your personal mission

In order to successfully work on this assignment, you should possess a Bachelor degree in Electrical/Mechanical/Thermal/Vehicle Engineering and you’re currently pursuing your Master degree in either these disciplines with specialization in control or in Control Engineering. Furthermore:

  • You are searching for a graduation project
  • Desired beginning date: September, but earlier is also possible
  • Project duration: 6-9 months
  • Hard skills: physical modeling, model predictive control, mixed-integer optimization, hybrid systems

What you bring along as a talented intern

At Lightyear we highly value people that have both, soft and hard skills. We’re looking for someone who is:

  • Proactive
  • Eager to learn
  • Always striving for the best results
  • A good communicator

What do we offer

In addition to a challenging graduate internship you also have the opportunity to work for a company with a real, honest and ambitious mission. In this way you have the opportunity to make a huge impact on the future of mobility! In addition, we also offer:

  • A high degree of freedom and independence during your internship
  • A multidisciplinary team of highly motivated and talented people you can learn from
  • A certain internship allowance depending on educational level and type of internship
  • In addition to a dynamic working environment, there is time for relaxation during our already epic Friday (digital) afternoon drinks!

At Lightyear we are building an electric car that charges itself. From our experience at Solar Team Eindhoven, we know this is only possible starting from scratch. At Lightyear we bring together a multidisciplinary team of highly motivated engineers, designers, and visionaries to challenge the status quo. Write the story with us!

Automotive
Helmond
Active in 10 countries
200 employees
70% men - 30% women
Average age is 35 years

What employees are saying

Manuel Ribeiro

Software Engineer

Manuel Ribeiro

"Lightyear is an exceptional team that puts together people from all over the world with the same goal of creating a meaningful positive impact in our society. I felt welcome from the very first day and working with such motivated engineers gives me the energy I need to do my best every day."

Sapfo Tsoutsou

Group Lead - Thermal Engineering

Sapfo Tsoutsou

"Lightyear is een geweldig bedrijf om voor te werken. Het voelt voor mij meer als familie dan een werkgever. Klinkt misschien een beetje heftig, maar het is zo. Je maakt makkelijk vrienden op werk: iedereen is vriendelijk, behulpzaam en zo gemotiveerd om echt een verschil te maken in de wereld.”