Pre-doctoral Researcher for E-motor Control

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Pre-doctoral Researcher for E-motor Control

Location: Tarragona, Spain

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Reference: 102581968271782707232460

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Posted: 27.02.2025

Expiry Date: 13.04.2025

Job Description:

Background: The Pre-Doctoral Researcher will be employed for Horizon Europe Framework Programme within the Call Horizon-MSCA-2021-DN-01-01 for the Type of action Horizon-MSCA-DN corresponding to the Proposal N. 101073014 in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie project GAP_Noise for the duration of 36 months for the thesis: "Torque control strategies of electric motors optimizing acoustic comfort while keeping performances on electric autonomous vehicles through a Multiphysics simulation" within the project of "Global Acoustic interaction and Psychoacoustic impact of the autonomous vehicles in interior and exterior Noise. The consortium GAP_NOISE, to which the doctorate program belongs, is designed as an innovative and pioneering training network, with a unique vision of establishing an ideal and suitable theoretical and practical arena for developing a technologically strong community of scientists and engineers capable of boosting the acoustic integration of autonomous vehicles in future urban areas by considering the needs of vulnerable road users and passengers. IDIADA is already providing testing and engineering services for EV systems, and current R&D activities will maintain IDIADA’s position for EV testing and development in the future. In order to match these market and technical trends, it is proposed to continue developing the service of electric vehicle Development focused on control definition for electric motors, noise assessment, and validation methodology combining virtual and physical testing.

Position: The position is offered in IDIADA Technical Center’s engineering department. IDIADA has acquired a wide expertise in the field of electric vehicle development for more than ten years. In particular, the electric motor laboratories and Noise & Vibration (NVH) hemi-anechoic chamber are reference testing facilities in Europe. IDIADA also offers engineering support to develop the electric powertrain from design and simulation toward calibration and validation development phase. For our next project within the GAP Noise consortium, our task is focused on Torque control strategies of electric motors optimizing acoustic comfort while keeping performances on electric autonomous vehicles through a Multiphysics simulation. The objective is to achieve a set of actions aimed at overcoming current limitations in the knowledge and technical experience in the engineering field of electric motors, modelling methods, control strategies, in addition to the recognized interaction between perceived sound quality and vibration.

Mission:

1. Simulate different e-drives solutions in multiphysics context.
2. Study the effect of different control techniques on NVH behaviour.
3. Optimize the e-drives sound quality and NVH at vehicle level.
4. Participate in perceived comfort and acceptance evaluation in experimental phase.

It is expected to have strong interaction with multiple departments at IDIADA (Powertrain, NVH, Design Engineering, Electronics, etc.). The activities to be carried out, among others, will include:

1. Be part of a team within the organization with the skills for supporting the development of the work on Electric Powertrain field.
2. Carry out the specific GAP Noise project in the field of electric powertrain.
3. Participate in the analysis of relevant virtual scenarios for electric powertrain development and support the group of services in this field.

Qualifications:

1. Fundamental: experience in power electronics and/or electric motors.
2. Knowledge of numerical modelling, programming languages and signal processing is an advantage.
3. Experience with noise and vibration measurements is also desirable.
4. Interest and disposition to work in interdisciplinary groups.
5. Good communication skills. You will be requested to work closely with the Technical Team in order to deal with colleagues in research phase.
6. Analytical and creative skills. Able to share new ideas and provide technical solutions.
7. Team spirit and ability to work in a dynamic and multicultural environment.
8. Autonomy and, at the same time, ability to work within a team.
9. High level of commitment and ability to work under strict constraint of time in respect of the technical goals.
10. Willingness to travel in Europe.
11. Ability to present and publish research outcomes in spoken (talks) and written (papers) form.