This work presents a methodology to analyze various hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) architectures by means of Multiple Domain Matrices (MDM), with the goal of exploring how functions and components relate for any chosen HEV configuration. The analysis of dependencies between and amongst the functional and component domains of eight different HEV architectures developed a basis of knowledge to define a total of 76 sensible possible architectures out of a field of more than 432 different combinations. ΔMDMs and ΣMDMs where used in comparing individual HEV architectures and enabled the development of a rule based synthesis of HEV architectures.     «

This work presents a methodology to analyze various hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) architectures by means of Multiple Domain Matrices (MDM), with the goal of exploring how functions and components relate for any chosen HEV configuration. The analysis of dependencies between and amongst the functional and component domains of eight different HEV architectures developed a basis of knowledge to define a total of 76 sensible possible architectures out of a field of more than 432 different combination...     »