Electromechanical Coupling Mechanism and Control Strategy for In-Wheel-Motor-Driven Electric Vehicles

Abstract

This paper presents a control methodology for solving the vibration issues emerged in in-wheel motor electric vehicles (IWM-EVs). Unlike existing techniques and methods, the proposed investigation focuses on the electromechanical coupling effects between the subsystems in IWM-EV, which were considered as another negative effects bought by power integration. To this aim, an integrated model which describes the dynamic coupling process between electromagnetic excitation in motor and transient dynamics in vehicle is established and developed. The characteristics of the electromechanically motivated harassment are discussed and its coupling mechanism is analyzed. The key factors are extracted and adopted as the feedback signals in the design of control methods. The effectiveness verification is conducted within numerous practical scenario of vehicle dynamics. Theoretical analysis and simulation results reveal that the proposed approaches can prevent further enlargement of air-gap deformation and unbalanced electromagnetic excitation by cutting off the electromagnetic force outputting periodically, which are benefitted to attenuate the negative issues arisen by electromechanical coupling in IWM-EV. In addition, a more balanced outcome in vehicle dynamics is achieved by the independent-phase chopping method with a less side effect on output torque and speed tracking ability.