A new electric braking system with energy regeneration for a BLDC motor driven electric vehicle

A new electric braking system is proposed for a brushless DC (BLDC) motor driven electric vehicle (EV) in this paper based on stopping time and energy regeneration. This new braking system is developed by combining various regenerative methods and plugging. Other than the existing performance measures such as boost ratio, braking torque, and maximum conversion ratio; stopping time and energy recovery for various methods are studied for different running conditions. It is observed that the stopping time is less for plugging and increases in the order of two, three and single switch method. In addition, energy recovery is better for single and three switch method. Based on these performances, a new braking strategy is proposed which combine all the regenerative braking methods including plugging and switch among themselves based on the brake pedal depression. The effectiveness of the proposed method is shown using both simulation and experiment results. Keywords: BLDC motor, Electric vehicle, Electric braking, Regenerative braking, Braking strateg