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Modeling, Simulation and Control of a 4WD Electric Vehicle with In-Wheel Motors

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Advances in Service and Industrial Robotics (RAAD 2017)

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A relatively new technology for the electric vehicles considers the use of brushless permanent magnet motors directly connected to the car wheels (in-wheel motors or hub motors). In order to evaluate the performance that can be obtained, a complete dynamic model of a four-wheel drive (4WD) electric vehicle equipped with four in-wheel motors is developed and a correspondent parametric simulator is implemented in Matlab/SimulinkTM. The simulator is also employed for designing, testing and comparing various control logics which reproduce the handling behavior of a real vehicle.

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The authors would like to thank Dr. Raffaele Romano for his contribution.

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  1. Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e delle Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Università degli Studi di Napoli, Federico II, via Claudio 21, 80125, Naples, Italy

    Raffaele Iervolino

  2. Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale, Università degli Studi di Napoli, Federico II, via Claudio 21, 80125, Naples, Italy

    Aleksandr Sakhnevych

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    Giuseppe Quaglia

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Iervolino, R., Sakhnevych, A. (2018). Modeling, Simulation and Control of a 4WD Electric Vehicle with In-Wheel Motors. In: Ferraresi, C., Quaglia, G. (eds) Advances in Service and Industrial Robotics. RAAD 2017. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 49. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61276-8_48

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