Teaching drive control using Energetic Macroscopic Representation — From maximal to practical control schemes

Energetic Macroscopic Representation is more and more used by researchers and engineers to organize the control of various energetic systems. This graphical formalism proposes a step-by-step control method from a theoretical control structure to practical control schemes. Such a method is taught to improve the skills of students for the development of control of complex energetic systems. In this paper, the method is applied to the traction system of an electric vehicle (EV). A specific attention is focused on the simplification of the theoretical “maximal control structure”.