Design & Modelling of an All Wheel Drive System for an Heavy Quadricycle Truck (L7e category)

In this work, authors investigate how electrification of the frontal wheel of a heavy quadricycle truck can improve drastically its off-road capabilities with a limited impact on construction and maintenance costs. This activity is performed considering an existing test bench vehicle that is engineered by the industrial partner of this activity and optimized with simulations performed by the academic one. Proposed solutions are specifically designed to be cost-effective, robust and reliable by minimizing the number of measured or estimated feedback that are needed to improve vehicle traction and stability in case of degraded adhesion conditions.