4 Wheel Motored Vehicle ” UOT Electric March II ”-Experimental EV for Novel Motion Control Studies

“UOT(University of Tokyo) Electric March-II” is our novel experimental EV. It is 4-wheel motored EV: every wheel has its own driving motor. Each motor can be fully driven independently. This EV is for intensive studies of “motion control of electric vehicle”, since it will be an important research issues. EV has great advantage on control performance: fast and accurate motor torque generation. Therefore, advanced methods can be applied for wheel skid prevention or road condition estimation. With small motors like in-wheel motors, even the lateral motion control is available. This paper first introduces “UOT Electric March II”, then describes such research topics which were and will be demonstrated with our new EV.