Efficient Routing Decisions for Electric Vehicles in a Congested Network

The Electric Vehicle Routing Problem (E-VRP) is an extension of the infamous Vehicle Routing Problem which asks which routing decisions an electric vehicle needs to take in order to traverse the network efficiently. Many extensions of this problem have been subject to research in the last decade and now that electric vehicles are starting to pop...

Evaluation and Comparison of Scheduling Strategies for the Scheduling of Electric Vehicles at Capacity-Constrained Charging Stations

As the popularity of electric vehicles (EVs) increases, congestion at charging becomes a more imminent problem. Congestion at a charging station can lead to long waiting queues and failure of EV owners to charge their vehicles fully before their departure from the station. To combat this issue, this paper explores several candidate scheduling...

Intention Aware Routing System with variable station pricing

Intention Aware Routing System is a route-planning algorithm for electric vehicles that minimizes overall travel time by taking into consideration congestion at charging stations. This paper extends this algorithm to allow choices to be made based on prices at charging stations. The goal of this paper is to find a way to minimize maximum...

Modelling an electricity price and journey time trade-off routing decision for electric vehicles

This paper introduces an electricity price extension to the intention-aware routing system (IARS) for electric vehicles (EV). The existing intention-aware routing system is used to route electric vehicles who require to charge en-route through a road network. To achieve the objective of minimising the average journey time, the intentions of EVs...

Modelling finite mixture joint distributions

Building models for an electric vehicles usage data set in order to simulate virtual populations of these electric vehicle users. With these simulated populations charging strategies for electric vehicle users could be developed in order to improve the use of electric vehicles. The modeling is done with copula functions, and are compared with...

Implementation of sensorless field oriented motor control in a solar car

In this thesis the implementation of Field Oriented Control in the car of the NUON Solar Team will be discussed. The team decided to do research into the possibilities of a custom motor controller, and this thesis covers the beginning of that process. First a comparison between different control methods is made, and sensorless FOC is decided as...

Conceptual Design and Simulation of a Microturbine: An Electric Car Range Extender Application

The microturbine seems to be a viable option for implementation into Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) systems. A microturbine was constructed in the Gas Turbine Simulation software GSP in order to assess its viability for a low-power range extender. Due to the small magnitude of the turbine, scale effects need to be incorporated into the...