The MORE project is a connecting factor within the School of Engineering and Automotive in which education, research and the business community work together.

In principle, all bachelor’s and master’s programmes work together in the MORE project. As a result, the students in this project are quite dependent on each other. Without front suspension, there is no four-wheel steerable vehicle. Without a four-wheel steerable vehicle and a control on the steering column, there is no self-driving vehicle based on camera images.

On Monday 17 January, Rob Verhofstad, chairman of the Board of Governors at the HAN, came to take a look. He was particularly impressed by the design of the project and the results so far. After all, MORE touches on all the main goals HAN stands for (smart, clean and social):

• The frame and suspension developed by a group of 12 2nd-year Mechanical Engineering students is being welded together by students from REA College. In this way, our college students work together with mbo students;

• Automotive trainees provided support in the organisational field, particularly in the areas of social media, engineering management and long-term planning;
• Around 30 students in the Engineering Systems master’s programme worked on modelling and control of the steering system, regenerative braking, driveline modelling and vehicle dynamics;
• A master’s student is doing his graduation research and has a paid assignment through MORE in which a vehicle is steered by Vision (on the basis of camera images, a vehicle is able to drive a route independently).
• The business community is helping by means of a paid assignment and this may result in a structural cooperation with ThyssenKrupp.

Validating measurement

In the video below you can see a validating measurement for the minor projects of the master module Systems Modeling. Here the electric support of the steering column is measured, which depends on the simulated speed of the vehicle. You see a simple measuring set-up with bicycle wheels, an unster, a counterweight, a current clamp and especially the software and hardware developed by the minor project group Applied Control.

Source and photography: HAN MORE