Browsing by Author "Kivanc, O. C."

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Design and Manufacture of Electric Powertrain and Its Cooling System for ITU EV Project
(Ieee, 2014) Ustun, O.; Cakan, M.; Tuncay, R. N.; Mokukcu, M. S.; Kivanc, O. C.; Mutlu, Y.; Tosun, G.
In recent years all expositions of cars show that every car manufacturing company is developing at least one electric vehicle. Recently, ITU ALEK (Istanbul Technical University Alternative Energy Club) members and its supervisor created an electric vehicle project called ITU EV (electric vehicle). This project is about developing a drive system for a conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle. The project which started in 2011, has four different main research areas. These are electric powertrain which includes water cooling design, battery part, controlling part, mechanical construction and outer design part. In this study, electric powertrain design, cooling calculations and design, and production parts of the project will be investigated. For electric drivetrain a special design of 70 kW BLDC (brushless dc) motor is produced and laboratory tests are made. The rated voltage is chosen as 355 V.
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Dynamic control of electronic differential in the field weakening region
(Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2019) Kivanc, O. C.; Ustun, O.
A simple and dynamic electronic differential control method for an outer rotor motor driven electric vehicle based on fuzzy gain scheduling of PI gains method is proposed for constant torque and power region operation using brushless direct current (BLDC) machine. The proposed method is quite insensitive to torque fluctuations and transient speed oscillations due to surface mounted permanent magnet (SMPM) BLDC machines constraints in the field weakening region. To improve the dynamics and stability of the electronic differential system and eliminate the skidding of the wheels and reduce the heating of electric machine in the wide speed range operation, a robust control method is developed. Moreover, PI controller gains are updated continuously by fuzzy gain scheduling approach which has phase advance angle, steering angle and measured speed as controller input parameters in order to eliminate the errors caused from the variable road conditions and torque oscillations in the field weakening region. The proposed method is implemented with 2 x 1.5 kW BLDC motor drive controlled by a TMS320F28335 digital signal processor (DSP). The experimental results show that the proposed method exhibits greater stability under various load, road and vehicle speed conditions.
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Electro-Hydraulic Power Steering System Modelling for Parameter Fault Detection Based on Model Reference Adaptive Frame
(Ieee, 2016) Kivanc, O. C.; Ozturk, S. B.; Tuncay, R. N.; Kesici, E.; Yazi, C.
A simple and efficient fault detection and parameter monitoring algorithm for electro-hydraulic power steering (EHPS) system is proposed using model reference adaptive system (MRAS) without any additional sensor. In a faulty situation where the hydraulic system is disabled, assisted power is provided by an electric motor. Therefore, in low speed maneuvers, during sudden direction changes and parking, some parameters of an electric motor in EHPS are affected. These changes threaten the vehicle's driving reliability and performance of EHPS. In this study, an EHPS system with rotor flux estimation based adaptive driver torque control principle has been presented. The motor winding temperature is obtained for monitoring purpose with the help of MRAS stator resistance estimation. The proposed parameter estimation method for EHPS has been simulated by using AMESim and MATLAB/Simulink co-simulation model. Simulation results demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method.
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In Pursuit of Proper BLDC Motor Design for Electric Bicycles
(Ieee, 2016) Ustun, O.; Tanc, G.; Kivanc, O. C.; Tosun, G.
In this paper, an electric bicycle motor design study is presented according to the related standard. Fundamental dimensions and characteristics are kept within some certain boundaries by means of motor rated power and physical constraints arising from standard bicycle sizes available on the market. Slot/pole ratios and winding configurations are investigated comprehensively in order to obtain a proper design of electric motor due to the facts of pedal assisted electric bicycle application. After defining the motor parameters and the materials that are used the motor design an optimisation attempts are undertaken by using an analytical solver which is employing both numerical calculations and finite element method (FEM) analyses. Motor designs are assessed based on torque production, weigh, efficiency and ease-of-manufacture. A concise experimental study is conducted for prototype motor in order to evaluate validity of design study.
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On Regenerative Braking Capability of BLDC Motor
(Ieee, 2016) Kivanc, O. C.; Ustun, O.; Tosun, G.; Tuncay, R. N.
The solution for range problems in electric vehicles is implying two essential approaches: consuming electrical energy with maximised efficiency and regenerative braking. Regenerative braking can be implemented by using the any converter used for electric motor control without needing an extra power circuit. To accomplish recovering electrical energy from mechanical energy a voltage boosting operation is necessary which is causing the current flow from induced voltage due to the mechanical motion to battery. In this study, a brushless DC (BLDC) motor drive system used for light electric vehicle propulsion is modeled by considering non-linear effects. The developed model of the motor drive system is used for defining the upper limits and constraints of operation. Analytic calculations and simulation results represent the operation modes of the system when regenerative braking is applied.
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Sector determination for SVPWM based four-switch three-phase VSI
(inst Engineering Technology-iet, 2017) Kivanc, O. C.; Ozturk, S. B.
Sector determination for a normalised space vector pulse width modulation (SVPWM) scheme is proposed for four-switch three-phase (FSTP) voltage source inverter (VSI) by using already available stationary reference frame stator voltages without requiring complex trigonometric calculations. The proposed method has been simulated by using MATLAB/Simulink and implemented using a VSI with a TMS320F28335 floating-point digital signal processing. Simulation and experimental results show the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed SVPWM algorithm for FSTP inverter.