AI Digital Twin Drives Paradigm Shift in the Development of New Energy Vehicle Motor Controllers

Wang Lei

AUTO ELECTRIC PARTS ›› 2026, Vol. 1 ›› Issue (7) : 13-16.

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AI Digital Twin Drives Paradigm Shift in the Development of New Energy Vehicle Motor Controllers

  • Wang Lei
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Under the background of iterative 800 V high-voltage SiC electric drive platform, motor controllers face research pains, such as complex multi-physical field coupling, long bench test cycle, and high costs for extreme condition tests. Based on the AI digital twin five-dimensional model, this paper constructs a new research paradigm of "virtual rehearsal-bench verification-data loop", and builds a virtual calibration platform for electromagnetic-thermal-control multiphysical fields. It integrates the AI generative Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing framework and the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) real-time junction temperature identification algorithm, and conducts verification based on the 800 V SiC three-level motor controller project. The results show that more than 80% of calibration parameters can be pre-simulated, reducing bench calibration workload by 75%; AI automated testing increases the efficiency of HIL scenario generation by 300%, and the single-wheel verification cycle is shortened by 35% to 40%; EKF integrates Foster's thermal network to achieve online estimation of power module junction temperature, with dynamic error <5 ℃ and response time <100 ms. The overall solution compresses the controller development cycle from 18~24 months to 12~15 months, reduces prototype iterations by 50%, and we advance the CLTC weighted efficiency compliance milestone from the 10th month after project initiation to the 6th month. Compared with enterprise projects such as Volkswagen and dSPACE, this paradigm has general applicability in the power electronics field and can provide a reusable digital technology path for the low-cost and rapid engineering implementation of high-voltage SiC motor controllers.

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Digital Twin / motor controller / SiC power device / virtual calibration / multi-physical field simulation / Hardware-in-the-Loop testing / thermal parameter estimation

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Wang Lei. AI Digital Twin Drives Paradigm Shift in the Development of New Energy Vehicle Motor Controllers[J]. AUTO ELECTRIC PARTS. 2026, 1(7): 13-16

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