Teaching electric vehicle drive control using Energetic Macroscopic Representation

The study of an electric vehicle is an attractive topic for students. At the University of Lille1 (France), an electric car is used to teach and develop drive control skills. From software simulation and Hardware-in-the-loop simulation, the students in electrical engineering learn drive control steps with a real electric vehicle. In this paper, the Energetic Macroscopic Representation is used to describe the electric car. This graphical tool allows the decomposition of the studied vehicle in accordance with physical laws. The control scheme is then deduced from the description using the inversion-based control rules.