International Journal of Engineering and Technology

This paper presents an efficient and robust control scheme of Fuzzy Logic Electronic Differential Controller (FLEDC) for sensorless drive based electric vehicle. The proposed system consists of two Brushless DC motors (BLDC) that ensure the drive of the two back driving wheels of an electric vehicle. Electronic differential controller (EDC) ensures the maximum torque and it can control both the driving wheel independently to turn at different speeds in any curve according to the steering angle. The sensorless control strategies include back EMF zero crossing detection and third harmonic voltage integration. Fuzzy logic based EDC is used on these sensorless control strategies which optimizes the slip rate within the specified limit and thus enhances the vehicle stability The performances in terms of slip rate, current, Torque, back EMF are obtained by the proposed method and are compared with those obtained using conventional control method. By this comparative investigation, a suitable control strategy has been identified. The effectiveness and substantiation of these analysis are ascertained in the MATLAB/Simulink environment and also experimentally validated.