The need for a more fuel-efficient and environmentally conscious means of transportation is receiving increased attention in the automotive industry, in response to environmental, political and socioeconomic pressures. One of the most important features of electric vehicles (EVs) and hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) is their ability to recover significant amounts of braking energy. The electric motors in EVs and HEVs can be controlled to operate as generators to convert the kinetic or potential energy of the vehicle mass into electric energy that can be stored in the energy storage and reused. The desirable braking system of a land vehicle is that it can stop the vehicle or reduce the vehicle speed as quickly as possible, maintain the vehicle direction stable and recover kinetic energy of the vehicle as much as possible. In this project, an electronically controlled braking system for EV and HEV has been proposed, which integrates regenerative braking, automatic control of the braking forces of front and rear wheels and wheels antilock function together. |