Design and control of a narrow electric vehicle

Author

Fard, Soheil Mohagheghi ; Goodarzi, Avesta ; Khajepour, Amir ; Esmailzadeh, Ebrahim

Author_Institution

Automotive Eng. Dept., Iran Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Tehran, Iran

fYear

2012

fDate

4-8 March 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

A narrow electric vehicle has been designed and controlled by an active vehicle dynamics control system. The proposed vehicle is equipped with four in-wheel traction motors, as well as four independently controlled steering systems. Simulation results show that the vehicle handling and road stability performances, mainly its overturning threshold, when compared with those expected from the non-tilting narrow vehicles, have been dramatically improved and the proposed vehicle behaves almost similar to that of a conventional one.

Keywords

control system synthesis; electric vehicles; road vehicles; stability; steering systems; traction motors; vehicle dynamics; active vehicle dynamics control system; in-wheel traction motors; independently controlled steering systems; narrow electric vehicle; non-tilting narrow vehicles; overturning threshold; road stability performances; vehicle handling; Batteries; Electric vehicles; Roads; Suspensions; Traction motors; Vehicle dynamics; Electric vehicle; active steering; torque vectoring; vehicle design; vehicle dynamics control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electric Vehicle Conference (IEVC), 2012 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Greenville, SC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1562-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEVC.2012.6183245

Filename

6183245