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University of Michigan Series Hydraulic
Hybrid- An Overview
The University of Michigan Challenge X Team
Presentation Ricardo Detroit Technology Campus,
08/24/06
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Presentation Outline

• Challenge X An Overview
• Series Hydraulic Hybrid The concept
• Series Hydraulic Hybrid Motivation
• UM vehicle design operation
• Powertrain integration challenges
• Role of computer based modeling for year two
  activities
• Vehicle technical specifications
• Critical challenges Immediate and long term
• Conclusions

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Team Overview

• Joint effort between the Ann Arbor and Dearborn
  campuses.
• Approximately 8 Core Team Members
• Faculty Leads
• Prof. Dionissios Assanis
• Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department,
  Ann Arbor
• assanis_at_umich.edu
• Dr.Bruno Vanzieleghem
• Technical Program Manager, Mechanical Engineering
  Department
• brunov_at_umich.edu
• Prof. Keshav Varde
• Associate Dean of the Mechanical Engineering
  Department, Dearborn
• varde_at_engin.umd.umich.edu
• Student Leads
• Pavan Potluri (Mechanical)
• Steve Scott (E.E and Controls)
• Prasad Venkiteswaran (Vehicle Integration)

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CX Sponsorship Guidelines

• Competition-Level Sponsor Classification

Sponsorship Contribution Minimum Cash Support In-Kind Credit
Headline Sponsor 1 Million 900,000 Up to 100,000
Platinum Sponsor 50,000 40,000 Up to 10,000
Gold Sponsor 35,000 30,000 Up to 5,000
Silver Sponsor 15,000 10,000 Up to 5,000
Bronze Sponsor 3,000 3,000 (cash or in-kind) N/A
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CX Official Sponsorship Guidelines/Benefits

• B-2.3.4 Team/Local Sponsors   Sponsors who
  contribute their products, services, or cash
  directly to the teams (and not through the
  competition program) are considered team or local
  sponsors. The competition will provide the
  following competition-level benefits to
  team/local sponsors
• Opportunity to donate their products and/or
  services to one or all teams
• Teams may display a team/local sponsor decal
  (approximately 20 square inches 5 in. x 4 in.)
  on the rear fender, rear lift gate, front hood,
  or passenger and driver-side rear window of their
  competition vehicle
• Teams may also invite their team/local sponsor to
  the Sponsor Social event at the competition, with
  prior approval.

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Sponsorship Benefits

• Participation in a highly-visible, national
  engineering competition
• Collaboration opportunities with team and
  competition sponsors
• Collaboration opportunities with University of
  Michigan departments and faculty
• Access to team vehicle for publicity purposes by
  Ricardo
• Potential recruiting opportunities ????
• Team member recruitment from both UM and other
  competiton schools

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CX Official Sponsors

• Headline Sponsors
• U.S. Department of Energy
• General Motors Corporation
• Platinum Sponsors
• Natural Resources Canada
• The MathWorks
• National Instruments
• AVL North America, Inc.
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• U.S. Department of Transportation
• Gold Sponsors
• National Science Foundation
• Freescale Semiconductor
• BP

• Silver Sponsors
• Cobasys
• Chevron
• Johnson Controls-SAFT Advanced Power Solutions
• Ballard Power Systems, Inc.
• Michelin North America
• Sensors, Inc.
• dSPACE, Inc.
• Renewable Fuels Assocation

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CX Official Sponsors

• Bronze Sponsors
• Vector CANtech, Inc.
• Dana Corporation
• Caterpillar, Inc.
• Intrepid Control Systems, Inc.
• UGS
• MotoTron Corporation
• XM Radio
• On Star
• Gamma Technologies, Inc.
• Maxwell Technologies
• Igus, Inc.
• First Technology
• Fuel Cell Sponsor
• Hydrogenics Corporation

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Sponsor Socials
University of Michigan Challenge X Team Altair
Sponsorship Request January 31st 2006
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Sponsor Socials
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Team Pictures
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Conclusions

• Hydraulic hybrid promises excellent fuel economy
  benefits
• Hydraulic hybrid reduces soot emissions
• CAD full-vehicle modeling aided significantly
  in the design and build process
• Further work needed on powertrain and controls
  integration
• Ricardo will be a perfect fit and a technology
  partner to the University of Michigan ChallengeX
  team
• As a sponsor Ricardo will have access to some of
  the brightest minds in engineering, high level
  media exposure

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QUESTIONS????
Could be Ricardo!!
Go Blue!!