Driving characteristics of an electric vehicle system with independently driven front and rear wheels

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 803-813

  Mutoh, Nobuyoshi ^a   Kazama, Takuro ^a,b   Takita, Kazuya ^a,c  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Uniden Corporation   (Japan)

^c Honda Access Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Drivability; Electric vehicles (EVs); Fail safe; Induction motors (IMs); Permanent magnet synchronous motor (SM); Steering ability

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC DRIVES; FAILURE ANALYSIS; INDUCTION MOTORS; STABILITY CRITERIA; STEERING; TORQUE CONTROL;

DRIVABILITY; PERMANENT-MAGNET SYNCHRONOUS MOTOR; STEERING ABILITY;

ELECTRIC VEHICLES;

EID: 33744811993     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2006.874271     Document Type: Article

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