Dual Motor Power Sharing Control for Electric Vehicles With Battery Power Management

Induction motor powertrains are emerging as a cost-effective option for high-power electric vehicles (EVs). A differential four-wheel drive (D4WD) EV based on two open-end winding induction motor (OEWIM) propulsion is presented in this article. Each OEWIM is driven by two two-level voltage source inverters (VSIs) with two isolated battery packs as the source. The proposed drive control algorithm integrates the uniform state-of-charge (SoC) distribution and fault-tolerant operation. A two-stage lookup table (LUT)-based direct torque control (DTC) scheme is proposed to balance the SoC of batteries by selecting the suitable redundant VSI voltage vectors. The proposed LUT-DTC scheme is less sensitive to variations in motor parameters and provides excellent steady-state and transient performance. The results show the superiority of the proposed controller in terms of battery SoC balancing. The performance of the EV drive with the proposed LUT-DTC is validated by both simulation and laboratory experiments for the FTP75 and HFET driving cycles under different operating modes under normal and fault conditions. The dual-motor-driven D4WD with the proposed LUT-DTC is found to achieve 89.2% efficiency.