Regenerative braking control method and optimal scheme for electric motorcycle

This paper describes an optimal regenerative braking control scheme for a permanent magnet brushless DC motor of an electric motorcycle to achieve dual goals of the electric brake and the maximal power harvest in two cases of the road, downhill and flat, without any additional changes on the hardware. Based on regenerative braking of brushless DC motor in half bridge modulation mode, the relationship between average regenerative current on the DC bus and PWM duty cycle under different speeds was studied intensively from the three aspects of theoretical deduction, simulation based on Matlab/Simulink and platform experiments, and then a simple but effective scheme considering the actual application was proposed tentatively to achieve the dual goals. Since the braking kinetic energy is harvested in the form of the electric energy stored up in battery, the scheme could improve the driving range, safeness, noise preventability and cost effective of electric motorcycles.

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