Electric Vehicle Physical Parameters Identification

Electric vehicle physical parameters highly influence the modeling of its different systems. Although a simulation using data acquired from field tests can have satisfactory results, the parameters inaccuracy, due to either insufficient information or wear, can prevent a better performance. In this paper, 10 electric vehicle physical parameters are adjusted/calibrated by three metaheuristic algorithms: Particle Swarm Optimization, Genetic Algorithms, and Simulated Annealing. Moreover, tests on real short and long distance data sets were used in order to validate the proposed framework to EV model calibration. The results achieved indicate that parameter calibration is effective in the reduction of the modeling error.