A MATLAB-based tool for EV-design

摘要

This paper presents a MATLAB-based software tool for modeling and simulation of electric vehicles. It is a software package developed using MATLAB 7.8 2009. Each EV element is specified by a set of dynamic equations. The constants associated with each of these sets are the input data to the simulation system. The dynamic equations used are context-sensitively displayed. It is a feed-backward simulator that estimates the vehicle element by element requirements and performance hierarchically starting from the tire to the battery-package. One of the primary advantages of using MATLAB is its advanced charting features. The simulator provides dualoutputs in the form of tables and in the form of charts. Lamar Electric Vehicle I, built in 2007, is used as a hardware-platform to relate and verify the simulation results.