Smart Emergency EV-to-EV Portable Battery Charger
With the increase in the number of electric vehicles (EVs) and developments in their related charging infrastructures, consumers have still some concerns about some limiting factors in the EV industry such as battery life, charging station availability, electric grid capacity, limited driving range,...
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| author | Mahdi Mosayebi Arman Fathollahi Meysam Gheisarnejad Hamed Farsizadeh Mohammad Hassan Khooban |
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| description | With the increase in the number of electric vehicles (EVs) and developments in their related charging infrastructures, consumers have still some concerns about some limiting factors in the EV industry such as battery life, charging station availability, electric grid capacity, limited driving range, and slow charging of batteries. Although some solutions are proposed for these limitations, they are not sufficiently efficient and cost-effective. Moreover, charging of EVs on-the-road is still a challenging issue which requires more innovation. This paper proposes a novel battery charger, known as an Emergency EV-to-EV Portable Battery Charger (EPBC), which provides a cost-effective solution for charging EVs on-the-road in emergency mode. The suggested smart charger can charge another EV based on the state of charge (SOC), capacity, and other important technical specifications of batteries in a safe and reliable manner. The smart charger can regulate the output voltage and the injected current to the EV simultaneously. To realize these features, a model free nonlinear integral backstepping control (MF-NIBC) is adopted to regulate the output voltage of the battery charger. By utilizing the actor and critic networks, a deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG) is adopted to adjust the MF-NIBC controller. Finally, real-time tests based on the OPAL-RT setup are conducted to confirm the applicability and feasibility of the proposed EV-to-EV portable battery charger. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-246fbb03f1f347909b458483d88f9aad2023-11-23T17:12:07ZengMDPI AGInventions2411-51342022-06-01724510.3390/inventions7020045Smart Emergency EV-to-EV Portable Battery ChargerMahdi Mosayebi0Arman Fathollahi1Meysam Gheisarnejad2Hamed Farsizadeh3Mohammad Hassan Khooban4Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aarhus University, 8200 Aarhus, DenmarkDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aarhus University, 8200 Aarhus, DenmarkDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aarhus University, 8200 Aarhus, DenmarkDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aarhus University, 8200 Aarhus, DenmarkDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aarhus University, 8200 Aarhus, DenmarkWith the increase in the number of electric vehicles (EVs) and developments in their related charging infrastructures, consumers have still some concerns about some limiting factors in the EV industry such as battery life, charging station availability, electric grid capacity, limited driving range, and slow charging of batteries. Although some solutions are proposed for these limitations, they are not sufficiently efficient and cost-effective. Moreover, charging of EVs on-the-road is still a challenging issue which requires more innovation. This paper proposes a novel battery charger, known as an Emergency EV-to-EV Portable Battery Charger (EPBC), which provides a cost-effective solution for charging EVs on-the-road in emergency mode. The suggested smart charger can charge another EV based on the state of charge (SOC), capacity, and other important technical specifications of batteries in a safe and reliable manner. The smart charger can regulate the output voltage and the injected current to the EV simultaneously. To realize these features, a model free nonlinear integral backstepping control (MF-NIBC) is adopted to regulate the output voltage of the battery charger. By utilizing the actor and critic networks, a deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG) is adopted to adjust the MF-NIBC controller. Finally, real-time tests based on the OPAL-RT setup are conducted to confirm the applicability and feasibility of the proposed EV-to-EV portable battery charger.https://www.mdpi.com/2411-5134/7/2/45electric vehicles (EVs)fast chargersliding mode controlmachine learning |
| spellingShingle | Mahdi Mosayebi Arman Fathollahi Meysam Gheisarnejad Hamed Farsizadeh Mohammad Hassan Khooban Smart Emergency EV-to-EV Portable Battery Charger Inventions electric vehicles (EVs) fast charger sliding mode control machine learning |
| title | Smart Emergency EV-to-EV Portable Battery Charger |
| title_full | Smart Emergency EV-to-EV Portable Battery Charger |
| title_fullStr | Smart Emergency EV-to-EV Portable Battery Charger |
| title_full_unstemmed | Smart Emergency EV-to-EV Portable Battery Charger |
| title_short | Smart Emergency EV-to-EV Portable Battery Charger |
| title_sort | smart emergency ev to ev portable battery charger |
| topic | electric vehicles (EVs) fast charger sliding mode control machine learning |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2411-5134/7/2/45 |
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