A Low-Cost High Performance Electric Vehicle Design Based on Variable Structure Fuzzy PID Control

Shamseldin, Mohamed A.
Araby, Medhat
El-khatib, S.

Journal of Robotics and Control (JRC)
Vol. 5 No. 6 (2024)

This paper introduces the design steps and implementation of Electric Vehicle (EV) based on variable structure fuzzy PID control. The role of fuzzy logic is making change in the membership function to tune the fuzzy action according to the error and change of error. The control implementation was executed using a low-cost Arduino mega 2560 and had been programed by MATLAB SIMULINK.  Also, a nonlinear model for the EV was built and validated by the actual performance of the EV experimental setup. The overall EV closed loop implemented on the MATLAB SIMULINK to select the proper control parameters. The proposed variable structure fuzzy PID control had been compared to the traditional PID control to ensure robustness and reliability. The results show that the proposed control technique can deal with the EV disturbances and continuous change in the operating points.