Development and Validation of AEBS Anti-slip Control Model for In-wheel Motor Drive EV in AMESim Co-simulation with Matlab/Simulink

Abstract

The Advanced Emergency Braking System (AEBS) is an intelligent vehicle active safety system to avoid certain sorts of collisions. Recent researches on AEBS emphasized radar, lasers and video camera technologies mostly, also controller developments were studied from Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) to Vehicle to Pedestrian(V2P) and other aspects with different scenarios, aiming to enhance the active safety of the vehicle. However, most of the current systems focus little on braking performance of AEBS, especially for EV with distributed drive system, like in-wheel motors. In this paper, A 15 Degree of Freedom (DOF) distributed drive Electric Vehicle (EV) model was created and an Anti-slip Controller of AEBS based on the logic threshold method was built. To validate this control strategy, a co-simulation platform between Simulink and AMESim was established and vehicle braking dynamic of four in-wheel motor drive EV was evaluated. Results display that the designed controller not only enhanced the braking performance of AEBS under sudden braking on slippery surface condition, but also meet the requirement of UNECE braking regulation which has practical meanings in boosting active safety of a four in-wheel motor drive EV and development of industrialization.