Stabilizing control of vehicle motion using small EV driven by ultra capacitor

This paper presents the stabilizing control of electric vehicle motion, driven only by "electrical double layer capacitors (EDLC)" as the energy source. This vehicle provides easy experiment of electric vehicle motion control, since it has extremely simple structure and helps us to perform some experiments easily taking advantage of the peculiar characteristic of large current charging. It shortens the charging time, which makes any experiments convenient and comfortable. In this paper, the basic characteristic of capacitor, basic driving experiment and our vehicle system are shown, at the last our future plans on vehicle system and motion control will be discussed.