Minimum-time manoeuvring in electric vehicles with four wheel-individual-motors

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2014

Authors

R. Castro (Author) FEUP; M. Taneli (Author) Other; Rui Esteves Araújo (Author) FEUP; S. Savaresi (Author) Other

Journal

Title: Vehicle System Dynamics

Vol. 52 No. 8

Pages: 824-846

ISSN: 0042-3114

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Indexing

ISI Web of Knowledge - 20 Citations

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Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

CORDIS: Technological sciences > Engineering > Electrical engineering

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-009-GPD

DOI: 10.1080/00423114.2014.902973

Abstract (EN): The coordinated control of vehicle actuators is gaining more and more importance as new platforms are becoming available, with chassis endowed with many different actuators that may help controlling the vehicle motion. Furthermore, wheel individual motors allow using a single system to apply both positive and negative torques at the wheels, which can be actuated independently one from the other. In electric vehicles (EVs), moreover, such a freedom in the actuation mechanisms opens the way to the combined optimisation of performance and energy consumption issues. In this paper, the problem of minimum-time manoeuvring in EVs is addressed, and the proposed strategy is compared against a benchmark, a-causal optimal solution showing that only a negligible loss of performance is experienced.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 23