Electronic control system for an electric vehicle: coordinated management of energy sources with different characteristics

• Grant number: 06/06257-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: March 01, 2007
• End date: June 09, 2008
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Electrical Engineering - Industrial Electronics, Electronic Systems and Controls
• Principal Investigator: Jose Antenor Pomilio
• Grantee: André Augusto Ferreira
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e de Computação (FEEC). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project aims the development in real scale of the driving and supervisory system applied to an electric vehicle. Considering the vehicle, the project objective is to develop a methodology for dimensioning the power sources (fuel cell, batteries and supercapacitor bank), in a way to obtain the desired vehicle performance, while considering mass, life-time, cost and driving performance limitations. From the electronic system design point of view, the objectives are to design and built the DC-Dc converters for the power sources interconnections, and to implement a suitable supervisory system for coordinating such converters.