A Smartphone-in-the-Loop Active State-of-Charge Manager for Electric Vehicles

Environmental concerns and the steadily decreasing oil supplies have promoted a significant interest in electric vehicles as a solution for the mobility of the near future, especially in urban environments. The correct handling of the energy behavior on board is one of the most critical problems to...

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Published in:IEEE/ASME transactions on mechatronics 2012-06, Vol.17 (3), p.454-463
Main Authors: Dardanelli, A., Tanelli, M., Picasso, B., Savaresi, S. M., Tanna, O., Santucci, M. D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acceleration
Batteries
Battery
Charge
Control systems
Control theory
Discharge
Discharges
Disturbances
Electric vehicles
electric vehicles (EVs)
Force
Materials handling
smartphone
state of charge (SoC)
System-on-a-chip
Vehicles
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Summary:Environmental concerns and the steadily decreasing oil supplies have promoted a significant interest in electric vehicles as a solution for the mobility of the near future, especially in urban environments. The correct handling of the energy behavior on board is one of the most critical problems to be addressed, particularly in urban driving scenarios where the speed profiles - even on fixed routes - are affected by significant unknown disturbances. To address this issue, this paper proposes a novel, spatially distributed and hierarchical control architecture that is capable of regulating the battery state of charge by imposing a desired discharge rate. The effectiveness of the overall control system is assessed by experimental results obtained on a prototype of a light-electric two-wheeled vehicle.
ISSN:1083-4435
1941-014X
DOI:10.1109/TMECH.2012.2188835