Generic electric propulsion drive : a thesis in the partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Engineering in Mechatronics at Massey University, Turitea Campus, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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2008
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Considerable resources worldwide are invested in the research and development of future
transportation technology. The foreseen direction and therefore research of future
personalised transportation is focused on Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV) or hybrid
combinations that use hydrogen fuel cells. These new transport energy systems are consider
most to replace the current vehicles powered by the internal combustion engine (ICE).
The research work presented in this thesis mainly focuses on the development of a software
control system for future BEV prototype vehicles - a generic intelligent control system
(GICS). The system design adopts a modular design concept and intelligent control. The
whole system consists of four modules being communication, power supply, motor driver
and transmission module. Each module uses a microcontroller as the brain and builds an
embedded control system within the module. The control and communication between the
modules is based on a group of specific parameters and the status of a state machine. In
order to effectively implement intelligent control and simplify the system structure and
programming, a generic intelligent fuzzy logic model that can be configured to a specific
application with a near real-time buffered communication methodology is developed. The
tests made on the fuzzy control model and the near real-time buffered communication gave a
very positive outcome. The implementation of the fuzzy control and the communication
methodology in each of the modules results in a communication between the modules with a
steady speed, better reliability and system stability. These modules link together through the
communication channels and form a multi-agent collaborative system (MACS). As the
controllers are designed based on the parametric concept, the system is able to be
implemented to future new modules and therefore allow prototype vehicle control systems to
be developed more efficiently. The MACS is based on the core components of the control
system - fuzzy logic controller (FLC), Serial Communication and Analogue input control
software modules. Further work is carried out as an attempt to integrate the control software
with a hardware design for a generic electric propulsion drive (GEPD). This thesis therefore
outlines the design and considerations in software and hardware integration in addition to the
GICS. The output from this thesis being the construction of soft programming modules for
embedded microcontroller based control system has been accepted and presented at two
international conferences; one in Wellington, New Zealand[1] the second in Acireale, Italy[2].
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Electric propulsion drive, Mechatronics, Battery Electric Vehicles, Software control system, Generic intelligent fuzzy logic model, Electric vehicles