Brochure/ Executive Summary to accompany code: Electric Car Gear Design OptimisationA Numerical

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Introduction:
Gear Box design has vital applications in cars, particularly with automatic transition. The goal of the project is
to find the optimal values of gear design parameters that minimises the time to cover 1320 feet by an electric
car as it enters a freeway ramp on full throttle. Some simplifying assumptions:
The only forces on the car are the torque delivered to the rear wheels & drag force due to air resistance.
Other friction forces & inertia, including rolling & gear friction, rotary inertia, are negligible.
No slippage in drive train. Gear shifts are instantaneous.

Variables in Code:

By Subhrodip Sengupta at 5:36 pm, Aug 24, 2016

Procedures:

Equations of physical modelling are fed into the code, procedure trcompute is undertaken to compute

finish time in full throttle (Trace). It starts with reading variables and zero speed, updating internal control
variables. If rpm>shift, next gear is put. Returns trace on completion of 1320 ft. This is main subroutine.

Procedure DesignOptimise begins the heuristic optimisation by slicing the pre-image interval, and
evaluating trace for each interval. It then implements a sort & identifies the candidate optima .in blue.
An interval around the cut points (slices) is further evaluated (fine sliced) to find the actual local optima
and visually justify the same through charts. This is done using Macro1, which is run on rightmost part of
table populated by fine slicing and using keys ctrl+j. See sheets with phrases Local_Optima in name.

Results:
Dgr

10
10
10

shiftrpm
Trace
3500 291.2282
4000
297.448
3000 302.7996

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Result of DesignOptimise on
Heuristics page (auto populated).

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Local_Optimal_Dgr and Local_Optimal_ERPM demonstrate the computation and justification of the local
optima values of Dgr and Shift Rpm based on further slicing of the intervals and computing.
Evaluating Optimal Dgr, given Optimal Shiftrpm(Orange) & Optimal shiftrpm, given optimal dgr:

Figure 2 Optimal Dgr, given optimal shiftrpm (Note corner value)

Figure 1:Optimal shiftrpm, given optimal dgr (Note: Interior Value)

We guarantee local optima: shiftrpm 3500, ngears 11, and dgr 10 (the last two variables if unconstrained would
lead to empty set problem). Minimum trace = 291.2282

Sensitivity Analysis:

Shadow costs of
increase in
constraints is
reflected in
ngears and dgr
where we find an
increase.
Shiftrpm is an
interior soln.,
zero shadow
costs.

Figure 3: 1%Change in dgr, unit change in ngears, block change in shiftrpm on trace, ceteris paribus.

Sensitivity due to Design Constraints change:

Figure 5 1 % Change in tgr1 on trace

Figure 4b: 1 % Change in cd on trace.

No change occurred in optimal units control variables due to change in constraints. Due to monotonicity in dgr and
ngears, and countable plottings we have of shiftrpm, the optima found is global, we limit ourselves to local optima.

Thank you.

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