This presentation focuses on optimizing and validating the performance of a 20-ton wheel loader through electrification by leveraging a virtual engineering workflow. The workflow encompasses powertrain pre-sizing, detailed design and integration, and online verification and validation, for example through an operator-in-the-loop simulator. This approach minimizes physical prototyping, accelerates and streamlines development cycles and provides solutions for energy and thermal challenges while enhancing machine performance.

• Leverage a virtual engineering workflow to speed up the product development process and make it more robust
• Powertrain sizing optimization: use optimization techniques to meet high-level requirements for electrification
• Reduced order modeling techniques: leverage test, CFD and FEA data to feed system simulation platform
• Integrate control system SW: verify control functions and machine performances through operator-in-the-loop techniques