Feedback-Control of Autonomy for Electric-Vehicles.
Event details
| Date | 24.02.2012 |
| Hour | 10:15 |
| Speaker | Pr. S. Savaresi, Department of Electronics and Information, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. |
| Location |
ME C2 405
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
The traveling range is a key-performance indicator for an electric vehicle. As a matter of fact, the high-cost of the battery pack, the limited availability of recharging stations, and the large recharging-time make this parameter extremely critical for the daily usage of an electric vehicle. Traditionally, the vehicles are equipped with “range-estimators”: algorithms, which try to make a real-time prediction of the residual traveling range.
In the seminar a completely different approach will be proposed and briefly discussed: the closed-loop control of the range. According to this approach, a desired discharge profile is tracked (as a function of the traveling distance), and the drive-style (condensed in a single variable) is used as control variable. The result is a guaranteed traveling-distance, with minimum impact of the vehicle performances.
This approach has been demonstrated with experimental results on a small electric vehicle.
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