TWIN-LOOP builds on a new opportunity on computational capacity of clouds and vehicles due to the implementation of High-Performance Computing combined with digitisation of EVs under the SDV architecture. State of the art Digital Twin is still far from the complex reality of EVs core performance, somehow too naive. Besides, a given vehicle in all its variants, together with its HW and SW versions, is unique and depends on the actual use and status in terms of health and use of each specific critical components. By considering unicity of a single vehicle and learning from the operational data of a series of vehicles (fleet) and the use of data and digital models across all EV’s lifecycle in an agile and continuous manner, it would be possible to unlock the necessary extra step to reduce energy consumption without compromising comfort and safety, in fact enhancing EV driver experience, safety and cybersecurity. The TWIN-LOOP will develop an Open Framework for TwinOps for EVs along with a suite of digital tools aimed at continuously improving Energy Consumption, Hardware Costs, Driver Experience and Vehicle Resiliency across the four stages of vehicle lifecycle. The project will implement the Open Framework, integrate with EV specific tools and assess their effectiveness in realistic conditions across three different use cases, identified for their relevance to the topic. The initiative will also focus on fostering synergies between various sectors and stakeholders, aligning with European priorities and strategic partnerships like 2ZERO and Chips JU. This alignment ensures the transferability of expected outcomes and underscores TWIN-LOOP’s commitment to innovation management, research ambition, and market acceptance within the automotive industry.

R-PODID (Reliable Powerdown for Industrial Drives) aims to develop an automated, cloudless, short-term fault-prediction for electric drives, power modules, and power devices, that can be integrated into power converters. Thereby, electrical and mechanical faults of machines and of the power converters driving them will become predictable within a limited prediction horizon of 12-24h. This will enable a power-saving shutdown of a larger number of production machines during idle times, because a looming failure during the next power-on cycle can be reliably foreseen. It will also enable reliable mitigation of dangerous faults in applications using modern power-devices like silicon-carbide (SiC) and III/V-semiconductor devices like gallium-nitride (GaN).

Climate change, CO2 footprint, energy transition, safety & security as well as sovereignty are key issues that the common population can very well relate to today. As we face critical challenges, research and development in our ECS domain needs to address them more than ever. In particular the energy transition needs to be accelerated in order to become more independent from gas and oil energy, which was considered being available at low costs and without limits until recently. This assumption has been proven to be based on very fragile grounds and it has come to an end. One solution to accelerate the energy transition is to use all generated energy. This means that overflow energy produced in wind or solar parks needs to be available in periods when common energy generation is lacking. This requires important investments into infrastructure, which will only flow, if investors trust into the technologies enabling solutions. The faster the trust is built, the faster the transition can be realized. On the other hand, technologies and products that will ensure an economic use of resources and enable long and trusted lifetime of systems and components in the ECS domain have to be developed. ARCHIMEDES contributes to this in the domains of automotive, aviation and industry. In ARCHIMEDES, components, models and methodologies to increase the efficiency and lifetime of the propulsion components, power components and energy storage devices in automotive, aviation and industry will be developed. This will support the energy transition on the consumer`s side. In order to support this mission, ARCHIMEDES aims to change technologies and products in the automotive, aviation, infrastructure domains and the related ecosystem towards a resilient, de-carbonized, digitalized, and green EU: It will help building trust in the new technologies and thus contribute to accelerating the energy transition, safety and security.