Abstract
In order to deal with the major problems of electric vehicle (EV) propelled by an induction motor (IM), a neuro-fuzzy sliding mode control was designed. The proposed scheme uses an adaptive observer that is based on a full order model of the IM in indirect vector-controlled drive. Moreover, it is evaluated on an EV global model taking into account the vehicle dynamics, the thermal effect and the parameters variations. The neuro-fuzzy network is used to adaptively adjust the parameters prediction. However, the sliding mode control can offer many good properties such as good performance against unmodelled dynamics, insensitivity to external disturbance rejection and fast dynamic. Simulations results carried out on a test vehicle, show that the proposed controller is superior to PID one at response speed, steady-state tracking error and resisting perturbation whenever driving or braking. This shows that the proposed scheme is good candidate for EV's propulsion.