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Main Authors: van Kampen, Jorn, Huang, Chun-Cheng, Salazar, Mauro
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.14236
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author van Kampen, Jorn
Huang, Chun-Cheng
Salazar, Mauro
author_facet van Kampen, Jorn
Huang, Chun-Cheng
Salazar, Mauro
contents This study presents a framework for optimizing the two-dimensional (2D) placement of electric motorcycle powertrain elements, accounting for the position, the orientation and geometric irregularities. Specifically, we construct a 2D placement model at the component level in which we include near-continuous rotation of components and allow for irregular subsystem geometries to make optimal use of the limited design space. Second, we introduce linearization techniques for the trigonometric constraints and formulate the placement problem as a mixed-integer quadratic program (MIQP). Finally, we demonstrate our framework on two electric motorcycle powertrain topologies and study the influence of the geometry complexity on the placement solutions. The results show that gradually increasing complexity leads to more manageable computation times and higher the complexity solution improves handling performance by 2.5% compared to the benchmark placement found in existing electric motorcycles.
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spellingShingle Two-dimensional Spatial Optimization for Electric Motorcycle Powertrain Elements using Mixed-integer Programming
van Kampen, Jorn
Huang, Chun-Cheng
Salazar, Mauro
Optimization and Control
Systems and Control
This study presents a framework for optimizing the two-dimensional (2D) placement of electric motorcycle powertrain elements, accounting for the position, the orientation and geometric irregularities. Specifically, we construct a 2D placement model at the component level in which we include near-continuous rotation of components and allow for irregular subsystem geometries to make optimal use of the limited design space. Second, we introduce linearization techniques for the trigonometric constraints and formulate the placement problem as a mixed-integer quadratic program (MIQP). Finally, we demonstrate our framework on two electric motorcycle powertrain topologies and study the influence of the geometry complexity on the placement solutions. The results show that gradually increasing complexity leads to more manageable computation times and higher the complexity solution improves handling performance by 2.5% compared to the benchmark placement found in existing electric motorcycles.
title Two-dimensional Spatial Optimization for Electric Motorcycle Powertrain Elements using Mixed-integer Programming
topic Optimization and Control
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.14236