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Automotive & Transportation

2021 Internal R&D Annual Report: Automotive & Transportation

Our Internal Research and Development (IR&D) program helps us advance technologies that ultimately benefit clients.

We evaluate transportation systems and components for small to large engines and components. Staff members analyze, design and develop emissions and automotive components such as batteries, fuels and lubricants, and military and civilian aircraft components to meet and exceed current standards.

NO/NO2 Control for ECTO-Lab, 03-R6017

Optimization of Electric-Machine Control Strategy, 03-R6030

Design of an Optical Periscope System and Phosphor Thermometry of Thermal Coatings on the Piston of a Compression Ignition Engine, 03-R6048

Additive-Manufactured Cylinder Head for Heavy-Duty Single-Cylinder Research Engine, 03-R6052

Large Bore Spark-Ignited Engine for Medium-Duty Applications - Combustion System Development Using Natural Gas, 03-R6064

Development of a passive pre-chamber ignition system for light duty gasoline engines, 03-R6091

Investigation Toward Commercial Viability of Catalyst and Surfactant Modified Urea-Water Solution, 03-R6096

Atom Trapping Synthesis for Reduced Platinum Group Metal Catalysts, 03-R6106

Development of Chevrolet Bolt Test Stand and Procedure, 03-R6116

Virtual Environment for Hybrid Powertrain Sizing Study and Control Algorithms Development, 03-R6121

Cooling Simulation of a Light-Duty Vehicle Electric Motor, 03-R6124

Demonstration of SACI and D-EGR on Engine, 03-R6135

Development of Rapid O2 Controller for ECTO-Lab Burner System, 03-R6139

An Investigation of the Importance of Skirt Flexibility when Modeling the Interaction of Piston Skirt and Liner, 03-R6145

Concept Study for a Compression-Ignited Hydrogen-Fueled Heavy-Duty Engine, 03-R6153

Far-Square Port Parameter Identification for Turbulent Natural Gas Combustion, 03-R6155

Coupled Electrochemical-Thermal-Mechanical Battery Modeling under Abuse Conditions, 03-R6165

Gap Analysis in Performance and Balance of Plant Control of PEM Fuel Cells Through Benchmarking the Toyota Mirai, 03-R6171

Mixed Metal Oxides for Simultaneous Reduction of NOX and Soot, 03-R8966

Detailed Characterization of Particle Emissions from Battery Fires, 03-R6119

Municipal Vehicles as Data Collection Platforms, 10-R6023

Connected/Automated Vehicle Multi-Vehicle Maneuvering, 10-R6046

Transportation Data Fusion and Analytics for Improved Traffic Incident Management, 10-R6111

Detection and Mitigation of Erroneous and Malicious Data in Vehicle Sensor Networks, 10-R6132

Virtual Traffic Enabled On-Road Fuel Economy Testing of Connected and Automated Vehicle Technologies, 10-R6138

Reducing Uncertainty in Deep Learning Perception Systems, 10-R6149

Spatial World Model Robustness to Scene Dynamics, 10-R6166

Determination of Environment Characteristics Relevant to Unmanned Ground Vehicle Simulation, 10-R6181

Real-Time Traffic Accident Prediction, 10-R6182

Transportation-Focused Computer Vision Presidential Discretion Internal Research, 10-R8989