DaBrEM

Since 2009 the Robotics Innovation Center in Bremen works in the field of electric mobility within the Model Region Bremen/Oldenburg. Main goals are evaluation, trails, development and research of different technologies in this field. Work includes data mining and data analysis from vehicle internal information as well as user behavior and experience. It also includes development and evaluation of different vehicle concepts and technologies for electric mobility as well as comprehensive fleet tests. Additional work is being done in the field of charging and intelligent user interfaces/services.

Therefore, the DaBrEM project deals with three main topics, which  partially include direct exchanges with Chinese partners in Dalian, to  evaluate the potentials of a cooperation. Within the two partner cities  testing areas are provided which allow to perform fleet tests. For conventional  electirc cars, the entire environment is available. For  concept vehicles there will be specific areas, so-called “gated areas” within which these vehicles can be used in fleet tests with  corresponding types of data acquisition. In both places this works as follows: Fleet tests will be tracked using data acquisition systems utilizing specially made data loggers as well as the necessary server infrastructure.

Afterwards all the data get analyzed to draw conclusions about user behavior and to gain information about the acceptance of electric vehicles. At the same time, there is a direct data exchange and joint planning for the standardization of data acquisition systems in terms of data formats and infrastructure. From the information gained concepts for simulations and models are then derived to facilitate future assessment of user behavior and vehicle usage. For the so-called "gated areas" four innovative test vehicles are built and deployed.

The aim is to integrate  autonomous functions into conventional electric vehicles to support the distribution of vehicles within the city as a car sharing concept. Vehicles will be equipped with innovative sensors, actuators and control logic to achieve this task. Meaning, vehicles will
be equipped with sophisticated sensors, actuators and control logic which allows the autonomous active path following with path planning for automatic road train driving. This way, several cars and drive within a road train autonomously. To control them only one driver is required. He will be able to undock cars at their destination if necessary. The number of drivers required for the distribution of such vehicles can be reduced and the task can be performed more efficiently. From the knowledge gained from the experiments, then a concept of a common vehicle between Bremen and Dalian will be developed. This concept should be the basis for further follow-up work.

As part of a comprehensive technology review process work for the characterization and certification of different electric vehicle components (motors, power driver more ...) is performed. The aim of this work is the development of methods for the approval of such components.