The steady increase in oil prices and awareness regarding environmental risks due to carbon dioxide emissions are promoting the current interest in electric vehicles. However, the current relatively low driving range (autonomy) of these vehicles, especially compared with the autonomy of existing internal combustion vehicles, remains an obstacle to their development. In order to reassure a drive...

Practical aspects of motion generation and control for parking a nonholonomic autonomous vehicle are considered. An iterative algorithm for the parallel parking maneuver is proposed. It is based on ultra-sonic range data processing. To control the steering angle and longitudinal velocity of the vehicle during the parking maneuver, sinusoidal reference functions are used. To prevent collisions, ...

Electric drive vehicles (EDVs) have complex thermal management requirements not present in conventional vehicles. In addition to cabin conditioning, the energy storage system (ESS) and power electronics and electric motor (PEEM) subsystems also require thermal management. Many current-generation EDVs utilize separate cooling systems, adding both weight and volume, and lack abundant waste heat f...

In the last decade, car manufactures invested a lot of effort to align their products latest energy directives which encourage production and usage electrified vehicles reduce greenhouse gases production. This resulted in several important developments, enhanced advantages electric terms local emissions (zero tailpipe emissions), efficiency, convenience urban areas others ultimately led ever-in...

This paper designed a fuzzy adaptive proportional integral differential (PID) control algorithm to optimize the overshoot of speed and torque, fuel consumption exhaust emissions traditional PID strategy in process working condition switching an extended range electric vehicle. The simulation was carried out Matlab/Simulink, optimization verified by bench test. results show that effectively redu...

This paper addresses a problem of autonomous parking a nonholonomic (car-like) vehicle. This research work is carried out within the framework of the PRAXITELE project which aims to develop a future-oriented urban transportation system based on a eet of electric computer-driven vehicles. At the present stage of the project, the designed vehicles have been equiped for the computer-driven motion ...

The current understanding of the aerodynamic performance of Sunswift’s solar-electric race car eVe is limited, despite the design and manufacture of the vehicle in 2012-13. This paper describes an investigation into the aerodynamic behaviour of the vehicle and details the successive design and development of drag minimisation strategies. A study of the ex­ ternal airflow around the vehicle was ...