International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395-0056
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Design and Development of Electrical Powertrain of ATV
Yogendra Kumar
1
, Simranjeet Kaur
2
, Tejpratap Singh
3
,
Chudamani Sahu
4
, Anjali Soni
5
, Rahul Prasad
6
1,2,3,4,5,6
UG scholar, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, New Government Engineering College Raipur,
Chhattisgarh, India
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Abstract - Air pollution has become a major concern in the
recent years and a dominant area contributing to air pollution
is automobile industry. It is known that petrol and diesel
vehicles are not a part of foreseeable future and
electric/hybrid vehicles provide a promising solution to the
above problem. The design competition of eBAJA SAE (Society
of Automotive Engineers) INDIA represent students a
challenge to design, engineer, test and promote an electrical
driven ATV (All-terrain vehicle) within the constrain of the
rules of SAE India. Mathematical study, designing and analysis
of the system is done in accordance to the national ATV design
competition organized by BAJA SAE India 2019. Considering
off road conditions, various test conditions are incorporated
which are: different impact tests, brake test, acceleration and
traction test to get the design parameters, around which
designing is done by the team for the ruggedness over rough
terrain with reliable and robust performance in a cost
effective manner.
Key Words: Tractive effort, All Terrain Vehicle, Hall
Effect, Pulse Width Modulation (PWM), DC-DC converter
1. INTRODUCTION
Electric vehicles are growing in popularity as they prove to
be cleaner and more energy efficient in comparison to the
conventional vehicles. EVs provide 75% efficiency in turning
the input energy to kinetic energy whereas gas powered
vehicles are only 25% efficient. This project aims at the
design, analysis and optimization of an electric ATV.
ATV which is the acronym for All Terrain Vehicle, is capable
to run in all types of non-motorable rough terrains having
obstacles like rocks, sand, mud, steep inclines, and shallow
water. The vehicle must be able to sustain all the loads that
are generally encountered in an off-road scenario both static
and dynamic and should possess enough traction to
overcome resistance encountered in the off-road scenario.
The dynamic stability and ride throughout the uneven rough
terrain is also a major consideration for the design of an ATV.
1.1 POWERTRAIN
The power train of ATV which includes BLDC motor,
controller, battery and transmission, is a vital part of the
vehicle; it is such selected and designed that it provides the
required tractive effort as well as acceleration under
restricted speed conditions. Given specified rated BLDC
motor should not exceeds of 6KW,together with of battery
48V,110 Ah Li-ion battery (as per the rules of competition),
space constraints and the various conditions of terrain type,
a suitable transmission system is selected its parameters are
designed, which is largely responsible for major vehicle
performance parameters
Fig -1: Block diagram of electrical powertrain
2. STUDY OF MOTOR
The speed and torque characteristics of brushless DC motors
are very similar to a shunt wound "brushed" (field energized)
DC motor with constant excitation. As with brushed motors
the rotating magnets passing the stator poles create a back
EMF in the stator windings. When the motor is fed with a
three phase stepped waveform with positive and negative
going pulses of 120 degrees duration, the back EMF or flux
wave will be trapezoidal in shape.
2.1 Synchronous Operation
Brushless DC motors are not strictly DC motors. They use a
pulsed DC fed to the stator field windings to create a rotating
magnetic field and they operate at synchronous speed.
Although they don't use mechanical commutators they do
however need electronic commutation to provide the rotating
field which adds somewhat to their complexity.
2.2 Rotating Field and Speed Control
In the diagram below, pole pair A is first fed with a DC pulse
which magnetizes pole A1 as a South Pole and A2 as a north
pole drawing the magnet into its initial position. As the
magnet passes the first magnetized pole pair, in this case
poles A1 and A2, the current to pole pair A is switched off
and the next pole pair B is fed with a similar DC pulse