Abstract
Vehicle simulation software is essential to vehicle design and development. Most current vehicle software simulations, however, require that components be specified prior to running the simulations. Within this context, this paper presents a simulator offering to users flexibility enough to add new component and use different level of accuracy. Thus a first version of a new software tool, in order to assist in developing technologies for Electric Vehicle (EV), is described. The ELEctric VEhicle Simulator (ELEVES) is currently being developed as a research project in the University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard (UTBM) by our laboratory Systems and Transportations (SeT). This simulator is developed on the base of the Component Hybrid Dynamic Nets (CHDN). As application, the proposed software tool has been used to modeling and simulation of four motorized wheels electric vehicle. Finally, a comparison between the results obtained by ELEVES with those obtained by Matlab/ Simulink software tool has been included.
Highlights
Transportation is a primary source of energy consumption and pollutant emissions worldwide [1].In response to concerns over environmental degradation, several government agencies, laboratories and the major automotive manufacturers proposed a progressive increasing number of automobiles to be Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEVs)
We have presented the first version of a developed simulation tool for predicting the dynamic and energetic performances of electric vehicles
This tool, which is called ELEctric VEhicle Simulator (ELEVES), has a high degree of modularity, in order to be able to model by component the vehicle system whose architecture is becoming increasingly complex
Summary
Transportation is a primary source of energy consumption and pollutant emissions worldwide [1].In response to concerns over environmental degradation, several government agencies, laboratories and the major automotive manufacturers proposed a progressive increasing number of automobiles to be Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEVs). In the recent years and due to the progress on electric motors and motor controller technology, alternative modern configurations have been considered. One of the latest configurations is known as motorized wheels, which consists of either two or four motors that are integrated into each drive wheel and can be controlled independently. This configuration was considered one of the best design alternatives to the Ford Ecostar power train. It has been used by Nissan in their concept vehicle, known as FEV (Future Electric Vehicle). The motorized wheels configuration will be adopted for both the General Motors electric car and the
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