Digital Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) Controller for Closed-Loop Direct Current Control of an Electric Vehicle Traction Tuned Using Pole Placement

• Published in: Advanced Structured Materials
• Main Author: Arof S.; Noor N.M.; Alias M.F.; Noorsal E.; Mawby P.; Arof H.
• Format: Book chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2020
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85086104918&doi=10.1007%2f978-3-030-46036-5_8&partnerID=40&md5=fcbaf20e2e1772f869bfca7328a13c94
• ISSN: 18698433
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-46036-5_8

Direct current (DC) series motors have a higher starting torque compared to other types of motors, and their power is in the kilowatt range. The standard speed is applied for electric vehicles (EVs) with a series motor, and four quadrants direct current chopper (FQDC) can cause jerk and slip during the start-up. DC control (DCC) is one of the solutions applied to FQDC to overcome this start-up problem. The DCC is the current control strategy that employs a lookup table with a predetermined reference current. The current has to be controlled in a closed loop with feedback. An inefficient feedback controller with wrongly tuned parameters can cause ripples in current and torque. This paper describes the modeling and the control of a proposed DCC using a PID controller with the pole placement technique. The system is tested using MATLAB/Simulink which shows that the current can be controlled using the digital PID utilizing the pole placement technique. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020.