Energy-efficient torque-vectoring control of electric vehicles with multiple drivetrains

DE FILIPPIS, Giovanni, LENZO, Basilio, SORNIOTTI, Aldo, GRUBER, Patrick and DE NIJS, Wouter (2018). Energy-efficient torque-vectoring control of electric vehicles with multiple drivetrains. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

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Abstract

The safety benefits of torque-vectoring control of electric vehicles with multiple drivetrains are well known and extensively discussed in the literature. Also, several authors analyze wheel torque control allocation algorithms for reducing the energy consumption while obtaining the wheel torque demand and reference yaw moment specified by the higher layer of a torque-vectoring controller. Based on a set of novel experimental results, this study demonstrates that further significant energy consumption reductions can be achieved through the appropriate tuning of the reference understeer characteristics. The effects of drivetrain power losses and tire slip power losses are discussed for the case of identical drivetrains at the four vehicle corners. Easily implementable yet effective rule-based algorithms are presented for the set-up of the energy-efficient reference yaw rate, feedforward yaw moment and wheel torque distribution of the torque-vectoring controller.

Item Type: Article
Departments - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: Faculty of Science, Technology and Arts > Department of Engineering and Mathematics
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2018.2808186
Depositing User: Basilio Lenzo
Date Deposited: 21 Feb 2018 14:39
Last Modified: 18 Mar 2021 02:35
URI: https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/18719

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