Hot and cool temperature control of the car-seat utilizing the thermoelectric device

  • Choi, Hyung-Sik (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Maritime University) ;
  • Kim, You-Shin (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Maritime University) ;
  • Woo, Jung-Jae (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Maritime University) ;
  • Jeon, Chang-Hoon (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Maritime University)
  • Published : 2003.10.22

Abstract

The thermoelectric device was applied to a car-seat to control the hot temperature in summer and cold temperature in the winter. The characteristics of the device used to a car-seat were analyzed. The air conditioning structure was designed to regulate the hot side of the thermoelectric device. To control the temperature of the car-seat, a robust control algorithm based on the sliding mode control was applied, and a controller using one-chip microprocessor was developed. The performance of the proposed controller through experiments was shown.

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