• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.98-105
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• 2012

Recently, most of the countries started to regulate the emission of vehicle because of the global warming. The engine scooter is also one of the factor which cause the pollution. The hybrid system of a vehicle has many advantages such as fuel saving and emission reduction. The purpose of this study is to choose optimal size of engine, motor and battery for hybrid scooter system using Dynamic programming. The dynamic programming is an effective method to find an optimal solution for the complicated nonlinear system, which contains various constraints of control variables. The power source size of hybrid scooter was chosen through the backward simulator using dynamic programming. From the analysis, we choose the optimal size of each power source. To verify the optimal size of the power source, the Forward simulation was carried out. As a result, the fuel efficiency of hybrid scooter has significantly increased in comparison with that of engine scooter.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.2307-2316
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• 2017

The aim of this paper is to provide an optimal design of in-wheel motor for an electric scooter (E-scooter) considering economical production. The preliminary development in-wheel motor, which has a direct-driven outer rotor type attached to the E-scooter's rear wheel without any gear, is introduced first. The objective of the optimal design of this in-wheel motor is to improve the output characteristics of the motor and to have a stator form to facilitate automatic winding. Response surface methodology was used for the optimal design and 2-dimensional finite element method was used for electro-magnetic field analysis. Experimental results showed that the designed and fabricated in-wheel motor could satisfy the required specifications in terms of speed, power, efficiency, and cogging torque.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.1008-1027
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• 2014

An electric scooter with a V-belt continuously variable transmission (CVT) driven by a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) has a lot of nonlinear and time-varying characteristics, and accurate dynamic models are difficult to establish for linear controller designs. A PMSM servo-drive electric scooter controlled by a novel hybrid modified recurrent Legendre neural network (NN) control system is proposed to solve difficulties of linear controllers under the occurrence of nonlinear load disturbances and parameters variations. Firstly, the system structure of a V-belt CVT driven electric scooter using a PMSM servo drive is established. Secondly, the novel hybrid modified recurrent Legendre NN control system, which consists of an inspector control, a modified recurrent Legendre NN control with an adaptation law, and a recouped control with an estimation law, is proposed to improve its performance. Moreover, the on-line parameter tuning method of the modified recurrent Legendre NN is derived according to the Lyapunov stability theorem and the gradient descent method. Furthermore, two optimal learning rates for the modified recurrent Legendre NN are derived to speed up the parameter convergence. Finally, comparative studies are carried out to show the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme through experimental results.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2011

This paper proposes a new design method for electric scooter which can maximize the power efficiency at the given driving condition. The proposed method is designed with the electric and mechanical parameters and driving dynamics. These values are extracted from the dynamic and mathematical equations of the scooter. For validation, numerical simulation results are presented in this paper. As a result, the scooter achieved over 80% efficiency at 360 rpm at 1.42kw load. It is clear that the proposed method was verified through a 1.42kw numerical model.

• KIEE International Transaction on Electrical Machinery and Energy Conversion Systems
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• 제3B권2호
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• pp.90-96
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• 2003

This paper deals with the design and the characteristic analysis of a coreless axial flux permanent magnet (AFPM) motor. Because a direct-drive wheel motor is easily derived from it, the AFPM motor is very suitable for application in an electric scooter. Compared to a conventional motor of the same size and weight, the AFPM motor is proven to have more power and torque per unit weight. In this paper, an AFPM coreless motor with a double-sided rotor disk equipped with Nd-Fe-B rare earth magnets is designed and a prototype of the motor is manufactured, which will be properly applied for the low-speed, and high-torque direct drive required for the electric scooter. The manufactured prototype of the motor has a rating of 300W, 510rpm, 5.6Nm, and 85% efficiency.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.1388-1392
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• 2013

전동스쿠터는 수명이 짧고 효율이 낮은 직류 모터를 사용하고 있으며, 모터를 제어하기 위한 시스템을 일률적으로 수입하여 장착하고 있어 제품의 차별화가 없고 다양한 특성을 갖는 장애인에 맞는 제품을 디자인 할 수 없는 문제점을 가지고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 장애인용 전동스쿠터에 특화시켜 가격은 저렴하면서도 반영구적인 수명 그리고 고출력의 특징을 갖는 BLDC 모터 제어시스템을 개발하였다. 특히, 국내 외 업체에서 생산되고 있는 전동스쿠터와는 차별화된 고출력, 고효율 전동스쿠터 제어시스템를 개발함으로써 국내산 전동스쿠터의 기술대비 가격 경쟁력을 확보할 수 있을 뿐만 아니라 관련 산업의 활성화에도 기여할 수 있을 것이다.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.130-136
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• 2011

본 논문은 전기 스쿠터용 영구자석 동기 전동기(PMSM)의 토크제어 알고리듬을 제안한다. 전기 스쿠터용 인휠(In-wheel) 모터는 기구적으로 고 분해능의 회전자 위치검출 센서인 레졸버나 엔코더를 장착하기 어려워 저 분해능의 홀 센서를 사용한다. 본 논문은 홀 센서를 갖는 영구자석동기전동기의 벡터제어를 위하여 속도관측기를 사용하여 회전자의 속도 및 고분해능의 위치정보를 관측한다. 초기 기동시에는 일반적인 120도 통전방식의 BLDC 운전모드로 기동하고, 기동 후에는 벡터제어 방식으로 전환하여 단위 전류 당 최대 토크(Maximum Torque Per Ampere, MTPA) 운전과 약자속(Flux weakening) 제어를 수행한다. 제안한 알고리듬은 전기스쿠터의 장착실험을 통하여 검증하였다.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.189-196
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• 2005

The numbers of the elder are rapidly growing who wants to enhance social activities, because Korea is already an aging society since 2000. The mobility and accessibility are the key issues to enhance them. The electric motor scooter and the power wheel chair are efficient movable means at a short range. It would be needed to get on and off them if the elder wants use them after arriving a long distant destination. But the electric scooter is too heavy for a man to get on and off a coach van. The motor winch lift is developed for the elder and the handicapped to get on and off a van easily. The lift consists of 3-linkage which can be installed in a trunk of a van with a small space. The clearance and stress of each component are checked by a computer simulation. The prototype was made. and the performances of safety and comfortableness were verified by operational ability test and durability test.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2010년도 하계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.65-66
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• 2010

This paper deals with PMSM control method for electric scooter. Electric scooter's motor has special structure that is hard to attach resolver or encoder. This paper suggests a method that it is performed of vector control for PMSM using hall sensor. After driving BLDC motor in low speed typically, driving mode is changed to PMSM operation and performs MTPA and flux weakness control. Proposed method is verified through simulation and testing.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2008년도 추계학술대회 논문집 전기기기 및 에너지변환시스템부문
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• pp.167-169
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• 2008

A 1.2KW Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell(PEMFC) stack(Nexa Power Module) is installed to motor driven general scooter. The 24V, 650W BLDC motor is used for actuator and 2nd battery(24V, 4Ah) is used for stable starting of this motor. The operating information of Nexa Power Nodule is transmitted by RS-232 serial communication to notebook PC, and that data is analysed and displayed by the LabVIEW monitoring system.