Validation of anti-slip control for traction system using Hardware-In-the-Loop simulation

In this paper a new-anti-slip control is proposed for the traction system of an automatic subway. Energetic macroscopic representation was used to proposed a graphical and physical description of the whole traction system. An inversion based control is deduced from this graphical description. This control scheme highlights different possibilities of control. A new anti-slip strategy is then deduced from the inversion-based control. Before an implementation on an actual vehicle, the new control is validated on a reduced power experimental set-up. A hardware-in-the-loop simulation is thus used to asses performance of this control in the same conditions as in the actual vehicle. Experimental results are provided.