Electric Motor Control
Investigate appropriate cells to provide 470V, 200A to the electric powertrain, accept regenerative braking energy, test them to determine their electrical characteristics and design a Battery Management System that will track the State of Charge by implementing a Kalman filter. This role will also involve designing the packaging, safety and control circuitry so that nothing catches fire and no-one electrocutes themselves while working on the car.
Design a controller for the motor to optimise the vehicle dynamic performance of the car. This will involve modelling, system identification on a variety of test benches, CAN communication and possibly Kalman filtering of sensor data to implement slip control.
