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IIT-Guwahati develops AI-based tool for electric vehicle motor
    Guwahati, Oct 5 (PTI) The Indian Institute of
Technology-Guwahati (IIT-G) Saturday 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', seeks 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, IIT-G said in a
statement here.
    '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 statement said 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.
    "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.
    Whenever the design engineer has some query, the
Smart-Engineer can be consulted to get the answer.
    Prof Praveen Kumar of Department of Electronics and
Electrical Engineering at IIT-G said, "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.
    "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," he said.
    IIT-G said the significant advantage of the
Smart-Engineer is it helps the engineer to climb the steep
learning curve of motor design in the shortest possible time.
    "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," it added. PTI TR SBN
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