Design and Development of New Controller Suitable to Neighbourhood Electric Vehicle Propulsion Control

The purpose of this paper is to design the propulsion system for a neighbourhood electric vehicle (NEV) and implement a control architecture which is suitable for this kind of application. The review of the vehicle model is presented. This model is used to establish the propulsion system requirements in terms of torque and power. Once these are known the specifications for the motor and transmission system are derived. A digital platform has been developed and implemented. This hardware platform interacts via wireless communication with a high level application to facilitate writing and reading the host registers. A PC graphical user interface was developed to allow the computation of the control parameters. Some experimental results are provided in order to verify the performance of this new controller