Are you an enthusiastic, talented graduate(s) Mathematics

You will be joining the Mechatronics R&D Innovation department at Philips Drachten. An impactful multi-disciplinary team of experienced and passionate professionals who work with internal and external teams. You get the opportunity to work on an innovative method for automatic battery modelling.

Description of assignment

Within Philips HealthTech, simulation tools and models are used to design a drive train. This drive train exist out of a battery, electronics, a motor and optionally a gearbox. For every module an extensive sub-model exists that is used in the total calculation. The battery plays a very important role in the calculation of the performance of the drive train. However, building a battery model based on measured data is cumbersome. It would be helpful if this could be automatized using a smart algorithm.

Main subjects of the assignment:

• Get understanding of batteries and their models.
  What is important and what not for drive train calculations
• Get understanding of the differences between different battery types
  Like Li-Ion, NiMh, Alkaline, Li-Phosphor
• Investigate the current existing manual modelling approach.
  Optionally, propose improvements on this approach
• Generate options on how to automize the (improved) manual modelling approach.
  • E.g. via minimization function
  • Smart combining of data
  • Other, to be defined by the student….
• Conduct test runs with different approaches and verify and validate the results.
• Choose the most promising approach and make this one robust against all kinds of variation in data.

The exact assignment can be further discussed and defined by the student in collaboration with our team. Please note that the subject is confidential and might require signing of NDA like contracts. Presentations might need to be adapted in case they are required to be presented to a general audience.

We are looking for:

A Mathematics graduation student who can work on this project for at least 4 months.

To succeed in this role, you have the following skills and experience:

• You have good Python programming skills.
• Professional skills in English (written and verbal).
• Team player, passionate about results and people.
• Hands-on mentality and result driven.
• Likes to do research, execute experiments and make (software) prototypes.
• A solid background in the above-mentioned subjects.
• Students open to learn a lot of new competences, like technical subjects, research, development, consumer research, international cooperation in a large-scale company etc.
• Able to work mainly on site (Drachten) for at least 3-4 days per week.

You will be part of: 

In Drachten you’ll find one of the largest innovation sites of Philips globally. With over 2000 colleagues from over 35 different nationalities, it’s an inspiring environment for you as a young talented intern. At Philips Drachten some of the best consumer product developers in the world work together to create innovative products with excellent end-user experience.

Our offer 

Philips Drachten could be the start of your promising career, with lots of opportunities to develop yourself locally or internationally in different sectors of our company.  At Philips you work for an employer whose activities have a major positive impact on people all over the world. You also get:

• Opportunity to strengthen your capabilities and knowledge.
• Dedicated substantial support and guidance from an experienced supervisor and support from several professionals and departments.
• You will receive an internship allowance.
• Within Philips you get the opportunity to expand your professional network.

Contact

Bernardo Mulder (MSc)

Development Engineer Measurement & Control

Oliemolenstraat 5, 9203 ZN  Drachten, The Netherlands Tel: +31 6 1257 4674      Email: Bernardo.mulder@philips.com