Vehicles driving up an incline use more fuel than when being driven on a level road or down an incline. Vehicles that do a circuit that includes both upgrades and downgrades use more fuel than compared to driving on a level road.
This project will use an instrumented car to collect fuel consumption data for a variety of test routes with known gradients. The results collected on the road will then be compared with fuel consumption as measured on a level road. The objective being to determine how to modify fuel consumption results from prediction models to account for gradient. (The project could also measure tailpipe emissions). Project ran in 2015.
Undergraduate
understanding techniques for measurement of fuel
understanding of parameters that effect fuel consumption of vehicles
fuel consumption and emissions characteristics of vehicles.
use of data acquisitions
use of appropriate statistical tools
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Lab allocations have not been finalised