Optimal Torque Control for an Electric-Drive Vehicle with In-Wheel Motors: Implementation and Experiments

SAE International Journal of Commercial Vehicles

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 82-92

  Athari, Abtin ^a   Fallah, Saber ^b   Li, Bin ^a   Khajepour, Amir ^a   Chen, Shih Ken ^a   Litkouhi, Baktiar ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^c General Motors Company   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION SIGNALS; CONTROL PERFORMANCE; DRIVING CONDITIONS; ELECTRIC-DRIVE VEHICLES; HANDLING PERFORMANCE; OPTIMAL TORQUE CONTROL; RAPID PROTOTYPING HARDWARE; STATE-DERIVATIVE FEEDBACK CONTROL;

ALL WHEEL DRIVE VEHICLES; AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; CONTROLLERS; OPTIMIZATION; RAPID PROTOTYPING;

VEHICLE PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84878759015     PISSN: 1946391X     EISSN: 19463928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/2013-01-0674     Document Type: Article

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