Smart-Engineer’ was built by the e-mobility lab (EML) of the institute by a team of four PhD and post-graduate students — Rajendra Kumar, Bikash Sah, Ankit Vishway and Rajendra Kumar
The Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati (IIT-G) has announced the development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-assisted engineering system design tool for developing the motor of an electric vehicle. The tool, ‘Smart-Engineer’, aims to address one of the primary hurdles in indigenising the electric vehicle (EV) technology — the lack of trained human resources in engineering design and system integration.
‘Smart-Engineer’ was built by the e-mobility lab (EML) of the institute by a team of four Ph.D. and post-graduate students — Rajendra Kumar, Bikash Sah, Ankit Vishway and Rajendra Kumar.
The statement said, “The Smart-Engineer enables the fresh engineer to learn from the collective knowledge and wisdom of the experts without necessarily having to interact with them.”
It added, “The EML developed an AI-based electric motor designer to help a novice design engineer to design a motor for EV application in the first phase without the need for much intervention from experts.”
“We now intend to expand the capability of Smart- Engineer to include the finer aspects of motor design. We are compiling the know-why of motor design that we have gathered over the years in the e-mobility lab,” said Prof Praveen Kumar of Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering at IIT-G.
He added, “The current version of Smart-Engineer is able to address the fundamentals involved in the design of induction motors. The early results are very promising.
IIT-G said, “Eventually, the capabilities of Smart-Engineer will be enhanced to address the other domains of EV such as power electronics, control systems, battery management systems among others.”
