Welcome to Journal of Automotive Safety and Energy,

Journal of Automotive Safety and Energy ›› 2022, Vol. 13 ›› Issue (1): 78-85.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8484.2022.01.007

• Automotive Safety • Previous Articles     Next Articles

Fault-tolerant control of speed sensors for direct drive in-wheel electric vehicles

SHAO Jincai(), HE Zhiyuan(), WANG Zihui()   

  1. School of Automation and Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Hangzhou 310023,China
  • Received:2021-07-23 Revised:2021-09-09 Online:2022-03-31 Published:2022-04-02
  • Contact: WANG Zihui E-mail:221901852096@zust.edu.cn;hezhiyuan@zust.edu.cn;113035@zust.edu.cn

Abstract:

A fault-tolerant diagnosis and control strategy was proposed for direct drive in-wheel electric vehicle based on sensorless algorithm to improve the vehicle driving performance and the handling stability when the speed sensor fails. A three-degree-of-freedom vehicle dynamics model was established to analyze the influences of speed sensor fault on the vehicle dynamic performances. A thresholding characteristic method was applied for diagnosing sensor failure and its type, and a sensorless algorithm was used based on the flux observer to estimate the rotor position angle. A state-switching method was designed based on power angle progressive compensation for smooth torque transition. The speed sensor fault-tolerant control processes under straightforward test condition and double-lane change test condition were verified by Matlab-CarSim co-simulation platform. The results show that the proposed control strategy restores and maintains 100% motor torque output within 3 ms, and eliminate the yaw angular velocity of 0.77 (°)/s, and therefore, improves vehicle driving performances.

Key words: electric vehicles (EV), direct drive in-wheel motors, speed sensors, fault diagnosis, fault tolerant control

CLC Number: