Design of vehicle control research and development platform for a pure electric vehicle

A design of a pure electric vehicle controller research and development platform is presented in this article. Based on a Freescale MC9S12XDP512 microcontroller with several I/O ports, the hardware of the controller together with a controller area network communication interface to coordinate functionalities of each vehicle module is designed. The control strategy is modeled and verified by MATLAB/Simulink and AVL.Cruise softwares. The calibration of parameters is verified by a 55？kW dynamometer machine with different test scenarios. Besides, comprehensive experiments are performed and the results are obtained using the platform