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Abstract—Recently, the electric vehicle has emerged as a automobile field will be possible. Thus the usage of sustainable
powerful platform for mitigating energy crisis and reducing energy resources becomes a vital factor for the vehicle industry.
environmental pollution in the transportation sector. The major Hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) and Electric Vehicles (EVs)
drawbacks of electrically powered automobile that limits its seem to be promising solutions to decrease the emissions caused
competitiveness with the internal combustion engine counterpart by internal combustion engine vehicles. The main components
are the vehicle driving range and battery energy capacity. Hence, of EV are an electrical energy source, electrical motor, power
limited energy storage warrants the need for an effective and converters, vehicle interface and control unit supervises power
efficient energy utilisation in the overall system. This paper uses flow. An accelerator pedal is connected to the controller to
Field Oriented Control algorithm and Space Vector Modulation
determine how much power from battery pack must be delivered
technique to enhance and to optimise energy saving at the same
time improve the vehicle induction motor efficiency. A simple
to the electric motor to overcome the vehicle load in different
electric vehicle drive with vehicle dynamic and tractive loads for conditions.
motor driving load were modelled and simulated using Matlab/ Modelling can help in understanding the behaviour of the
Simulink. Simulation results show that modelled vehicle speed electric vehicle [2],[3], and a simulation is a key issue all through
satisfied the acceleration index for the electric vehicle. different phases of the improvement of this kind of vehicle [4],
which requires modelling of various components and a number
Keywords—Electric Vehicle; FOC; SVM; IM; PWM
of aspects [5],[6]. Simulation allows reduction of the expense
I. INTRODUCTION and length of the design cycle of EVs by testing the
configurations and energy management strategies before
A change in the lifestyle has created more demand for travel, prototype construction begins [7]. It can also be used to verify
especially in the urban areas where the economy continues to the vehicle in different situations through driving cycle methods.
grow. As a result, transportation becomes a major consumer The type of model depends on the objectives of simulation [8],
stakeholder of global energy consumption and greenhouse gas [9].
emissions. Reducing the impact of transportation can be
achieved through enhancement of the energy efficiency, This paper, therefore, investigates the designed key features
especially for public and private vehicles. of EV propelled by three phase induction motor (IM) supplied
from a lithium-ion battery which acts as a power source for the
An onboard-to-wheel is one step of energy conversion to EV. The purpose is to create a simple EV model with low cost,
analyse energy efficiency of the passenger cars [1]. This step of achievable requirement, performance and safety. The model can
conversion onboard-to-wheel, the energy is converted by the be used to determine the required energy for the drive train and
driving system to mechanical energy then converted into the speed, torque and power for the system to meet specific drive
dynamic and potential energy required for the displacement. cycle. The paper also describes the field oriented control (FOC)
However, this energy conversion process causes substantial combined with space vector modulation (SVM) technique to
energy loss as onboard-to-wheel energy is influenced by vehicle improve the transient and steady state of the EV drive. Instead
load resistances such as rolling resistance, aerodynamic drag of modelling an EV with its entire aspect a simple EV will be
resistance, grading resistance, weight, and above that the driving used to achieve a model goals of the electric drive.
profiles followed by the vehicle. Two ways to improve the
onboard-to-wheel efficiency are the component level and the The paper is structured as follows: firstly SVM technique
system control level approaches. alongside with FOC approach is discussed. Secondly, the model
development parts for the vehicle design is presented, and
For the above issues, the road transportation has been so far thirdly, the electrical drive vehicle model is described and finally
the most popular field of research with the emergence of the simulation results obtained are shown along with conclusions.
energy crisis. When the share of renewables is extended in the
electricity mixture, a reduction of CO2 emissions caused by the
3 P L2m e e
Te = iqs ids (12)
2 2 Lr
Equation (12) represents the response of vector controlled
IM drive. is torque component and is flux component. If
the IM requires high speed, the direct current component
through the IM has to be controlled. To have a good torque
response, the flux component must be constant and the torque
component must be varied. That means idref is constant while iqref
is the desired variable torque signal as illustrated in Fig.4.
β -axis
ωe
b
is
ax
q-
Fig.4 Block diagram of a simplified indirect FOC ax
d-
is
bs
qs
In Fig.5, the reference frame dq-axis is rotating at speed ωe axis
iqs ωr rotor
iβ
ds
while the rotor which has ar, br and cr windings, rotates at speed qr
ids
θ
ωr. The hypothesis windings qr* and dr* are rotating at a speed *
*
dr
of the rotor flux vector because the reference frame is attached br ar θr a
with rotor flux vector. iα as α-axis
dψ ds
vds = rs ids + − ωψ qs (6)
dt c
dψ qs Fig.5 The IM three phase with rotating and fixed reference frames
vqs = rs iqs + − ωψ ds (7)
dt
III. VEHICLE LOAD MODEL
dψ dr The analysis is the first step to provide the required size of
vdr = 0 = rr idr + − (ωe − ωr )ψ qr (8)
dt the induction motor and battery pack source. Therefore, the
vehicle motion can be completely determined by analysing the
dψ qr forces acting on it in the direction of motion. When the vehicle
vqr = 0 = rr iqr + − (ωe − ωr )ψ dr (9)
dt has mass mv and is moving at speed v uphill with an angle θ, it
faces a resistive force that tries to retard its motion as shown in
Since the rotor current cannot be accessed, rotor current iqr Fig.6.
must be replaced with stator current and the slip can expressed
as: These resistive forces are: rolling resistance, aerodynamic
drag resistance, and grading resistance. The equation of motion
e e
rr iqs L iqs along electric vehicle’s longitudinal axis is expressed by the
ωsl = ωe − ωr = Lm e = m e (10) following equation [20]:
Lr ψ dr Z r ψ dr
Ft = Frr + Fad + Fhc + Fac (13)
Zr is the motor time constant. The slip speed will be useful
when controlling the IM with FOC. Where Ft, Frr, Fae, Fhc, Fac and Fwa represent the total tractive
force, the road rolling resistance, aerodynamic resistance,
The equation of electromagnetic torque in the form of stator
current and rotor flux is given as follow in (11):
grading resistance, and acceleration resistance, respectively. The motor and Vmax is the maximum vehicle speed, the vehicle base
detail definitions are given in the following section. speed Vb in m/s and the motor angular velocity wmax, in rad/s,
can be written as:
A. Rolling resistance
The Frr is generated through the friction of the vehicle tire at ( )
Vb = Vmax / x = 2π nm,base rd / 60 N g (18)
the roadway contact surface and hardly relies on vehicle speed,
tire pressure and type and road surface characteristic. wmax = 2π nm , max / 60 (19)
Fad = (1 / 2 ) pa .cad . A f ( vv + vw )
2
(15) ( )
Ft = 60 N gη g Pm / 2π nm , max rd (21)
Where ρa is air density; Cad aerodynamic drag coefficient; Af The Newton's second law of motion and principles of vehicle
is vehicle frontal area; vv is vehicle speed, and vw is headwind design can be applied therefore, the vehicle acceleration can be
velocity. expressed as:
C. Grading Resistance dv
a= = ( Ft − ( Frr + Fad + Fhc + Fac ) ) / M v (22)
When the vehicle weight component acts along the slope, the dt
grading is a required force to drive the vehicle up a slope. This
grading resistance force Fhc opposes the forward motion uphill Where v is the vehicle speed. The balanced power equation
and helps downward motion. It can be expressed as: can be written as:
control unit.
The motor which propels the EV load is supplied by a Between t = 1 - 4 s, the vehicle and motor speed reached 40
lithium-ion battery which acts as the main power source for the km/h and 3000 rpm respectively, while torque continued to
EV. A converter inverts the DC voltage from the battery to three nearly 200 Nm during this motor based speed. At t = 4 – 15 s,
phase AC fed to the motor. The control unit block has a FOC the measured torque shown in Fig. 12 is around 50 Nm which
algorithm, as uses SVM technique to control the gates of the follows the reference torque with clear difference due to vehicle
switches for the converter which control the motor dynamics. A parameters such as vehicle weight, vehicle tyre size and
torque actuator from Simulink is used to couple the torque transmission systems. While the motor power is around 22 kW
developed by the motor shaft with the vehicle gearbox splitting as shown in Fig.13. During the same time intervals, battery
to the wheels through the differential. power responds exactly to the required motor power. Also, the
battery current which responds to the vehicle load current as
The motor torque for the EV can be determined if the vehicle shown in Fig.14 is around 85 A.
load and acceleration are known. Therefore, pedal accelerator
signal reference, shown in Fig.8, is fed for 16 seconds to the
control unit block that determines the torque reference.
Furthermore, vehicle parameters can be modified for electric
motor to produce the required torque.
As the battery SOC depletes with 0.5% over the 16-second
acceleration as depicted in Fig.9, the motor power and torque
were responding to overcome the vehicle load at this interval.
As the acceleration starting from initial t = 0.0s to t = 1s, the
vehicle and motor speed reached 10 km/h and 900rpm as Fig.10 Vehicle speed in (Km/h) during 16 seconds
When the vehicle slows down or commanded acceleration is discharge state, with an average battery power of 22 kW and
negative both motor and vehicle speeds decreased respectively. current of 85A. Simulation based on the acceleration signal
The simulation result of acceleration time when the speed is 0- shows that it is simple to determine how much battery capacity
60 km/h during 10 sec, can extremely meet the acceleration required by the EV. The EV performance and speed are
index for EV. determined by the produced induction motor torque which is
controlled by the FOC.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
This work was financially supported by Department of
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering,
Universiti Putra Malaysia.
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