Design and parameter optimization of a new type in-wheel motor drive electric vehicle vibration reduction system

Li, Lunzuo; Kang, Sheng; Deng, Jiangjun

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Design and parameter optimization of a new type in-wheel motor drive electric vehicle vibration reduction system

Lunzuo Li¹

Sheng Kang²

Jiangjun Deng³

^{1, 2, 3}School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Ganzhou, 341000, China

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Sheng Kang

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Abstract

In order to reduce the problem of unsprung mass increased caused by using of in-wheel motor, resulting in poor ride comfort of in-wheel motor drive (IWMD) electric vehicle. A new type in-wheel motor drive electric vehicle vibration reduction system is designed based on the special structure of axial flux motor, and the stator of axial flux motor is suspended by rubber bushing and stator suspension. Then the effectiveness of the designed IWMD electric vehicle vibration reduction system is verified by simulation analysis. The parameters of the designed IWMD electric vehicle vibration reduction system is optimized by orthogonal experiment to further improve which vibration reduction performance, and the optimal parameters scheme of the designed IWMD electric vehicle vibration reduction system is determined by comparative simulation analysis.

1. Introduction

The in-wheel motor drive system simplified transmission system structure, reduce the loss of power in the transmission process, improve the efficiency of the vehicle, and achieve the driving force optimal distribution. However, due to the special driving mode of in-wheel motor, the unsprung mass of the vehicle increases and the ride comfort of the vehicle is reduced [1]. Moreover, unbalanced electromagnetic force is generated due to the change of air gap between the stator and the rotor of the in-wheel motor when vehicle driving on the uneven road, which further deteriorates the ride comfort of the vehicle [2]. Therefore, how to reduce the impact of the increase of unsprung mass and the unbalanced electromagnetic force caused by the change of air gap on vehicle ride comfort is an urgent problem should be solved.

Scholars have extensively researched the design of electric wheel and vibration damping system to reduce the negative influence of the increase of unsprung mass of in-wheel motor. G. Nagaya [3] proposed an Advanced-Dynamic-Damper-Motor (ADM) system, the motor is attached to unsprung mass through a spring and damper of exclusive use, which can make the motor work as a dynamic damper. The ADM system can improve vehicle ride comfort and reduced the vibratory input to the motor. K. M. Rahman [4] made an innovative design for the motor, and the motor stator is connected with the frame to transform the stator mass into sprung mass, which effectively improved the smooth performance of the vehicle. However, the working environment of the motor became more worse, which may reduce the service life of the driving motor. Y. L. Han [5] designed a new type of in-wheel motor electric vehicle wheel. The rubber bushing is added between the stator and the wheel support shaft, to suspend the stator so that it has vibration absorption function. J. H. Huang [6] proposed a vibration-damping system based on the electric wheel, which can realize the transfer of motor mass from unsprung mass to sprung mass, and play the role of dynamic vibration absorber. Y. M. Hu [7] proposed a novel suspension configuration to solve the problem of vibration negative effects caused by in-wheel motor, which combining dynamic damping and active suspension. And a multi-objective particle swarm optimization linear quadratic regulator is designed to optimize the parameters of the new suspension. H. Z. Ren [8] designed an in-wheel motor suspension system, which can be installed in the electric wheel to reduce the negative effect of vertical vibration caused by the increase of sprung mass of electric vehicle driven by in-wheel motor. The design concept is to arrange a set of rubber bushing in the electric wheel, realize the elastic isolation of motor mass and other unsprung masses, associate part of unsprung mass with vehicle body, and absorb part of the vibration transmitted to the electric wheel caused by road excitation. P. P. Zhao [9] put forward a new in-wheel motor drive model (NIWMD), the in-wheel motor and the electromagnetic damper constitute a dynamic vibration absorber, and studied the influence of NIWMD system parameters on vertical performance evaluation indexes of IWMD vehicle. X. B. Chen [10] apply the principle of adaptive transmission to enable propulsion motor to work as the dynamic vibration absorber to suppress the unsprung mass vibration. The research direction of vibration reduction system of electric vehicle driven by in-wheel motors is mainly based on traditional radial motors, and the change of motor air gap caused by vibration can be reduced by optimizing motor structure or control strategy [11, 13], so as to achieve the corresponding vibration reduction effect.

However, there are few researches on using the special structure of axial flux motor to design the vibration reduction system of IWMD electric vehicle, so as to reduce the problem of deterioration of vehicle ride comfort due to the increase of unsprung mass caused by using of in-wheel motor. Therefore, new vibration reduction system is designed based on axial flux motor, the parameters of new vibration reduction system is optimized by orthogonal experiment. Finally, the optimal parameters scheme of new vibration reduction system is obtained to make the IWMD electric vehicle have good ride comfort.

2. Design and analysis of IWMD electric vehicle vibration reduction system

In order to reduce the influence of the increase of unsprung mass caused by using of in-wheel motor and the unbalanced electromagnetic force caused by the change of air gap of drive motor on vehicle ride comfort, it is necessary to redesign the configuration of IWMD electric vehicle vibration reduction system.

2.1. Design of new vibration reduction system

When using in-wheel radial motor as the power plant of IWMD electric wheel, the unsprung mass will increase, and unbalanced electromagnetic force will be generated by the change of the air gap between the stator and rotor of radial motor during the driving process. The increase unsprung mass and the normal component of the unbalanced electromagnetic force will deteriorate the vehicle ride comfort [14]. In order to solve above problems, axial flux motor is used to reduce the generation of normal unbalanced electromagnetic force, and the motor vibration reduction system is designed. The designed structure of new vibration reduction system is shown in Fig. 1.

As shown in Fig. 1, rotor 2 is connected to hub 1 through flange construction, stator 3 is suspended by rubber bushing 4 and stator suspension 7, rotor 2 is connected to motor shaft 5 and stator 3 respectively through bearings 8 and 9, and vehicle suspension 6 is connected to motor shaft 5.

2.2. Dynamics modeling of 1/4 vehicle

In order to simplify the vehicle vibration model into 1/4 vehicle vibration model to analyze the vertical vibration performance of the IWMD electric vehicle, sprung mass, suspension equivalent stiffness and damping, road unevenness are assumption symmetric distribution with the longitudinal axial symmetrical of vehicle. The 1/4 vehicle vibration models are shown in Fig. 2.

Fig. 1Structure of new vibration reduction system: 1 – hub; 2 – rotor; 3 – stator; 4 – rubber bushing; 5 – motor shaft; 6 – vehicle suspension; 7 – stator suspension; 8 – bearing; 9 – bearing

Structure of new vibration reduction system: 1 – hub; 2 – rotor; 3 – stator; 4 – rubber bushing; 5 – motor shaft; 6 – vehicle suspension; 7 – stator suspension; 8 – bearing; 9 – bearing

Fig. 21/4 vehicle vibration models

a) With traditional vibration reduction system

b) With new vibration reduction system

Based on the Newton laws, the 1/4 vehicle vibration model of IWMD electric vehicle with traditional vibration reduction system can be formulated as:

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\{\begin{array}{l} m_{s} {\ddot{x}}_{s} + c_{1} ({\dot{x}}_{s} - {\dot{x}}_{b}) + k_{1} (x_{s} - x_{b}) = 0, \\ (m_{b} + m_{e r} + m_{e s}) {\ddot{x}}_{b} + c_{1} ({\dot{x}}_{b} - {\dot{x}}_{s}) + k_{1} (x_{b} - x_{s}) + k_{0} (x_{b} - x_{0}) = 0 . \end{array}

The 1/4 vehicle vibration model of IWMD electric vehicle with new vibration reduction system can be formulated as:

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\{\begin{array}{l} m_{s} {\ddot{x}}_{s} + c_{1} ({\dot{x}}_{s} - {\dot{x}}_{b}) + c_{2} ({\dot{x}}_{s} - {\dot{x}}_{e s}) + k_{1} (x_{s} - x_{b}) + k_{2} (x_{s} - x_{e s}) = 0, \\ (m_{b} + m_{e r}) {\ddot{x}}_{b} + c_{1} ({\dot{x}}_{b} - {\dot{x}}_{s}) + c_{3} ({\dot{x}}_{b} - {\dot{x}}_{e s}) + k_{1} (x_{b} - x_{s}) + k_{3} (x_{b} - x_{e s}) \\ + k_{0} (x_{b} - x_{0}) = 0, \\ m_{e s} {\ddot{x}}_{e s} + c_{2} ({\dot{x}}_{e s} - {\dot{x}}_{s}) + c_{3} ({\dot{x}}_{e s} - {\dot{x}}_{b}) + k_{2} (x_{e s} - x_{s}) + k_{3} (x_{e s} - x_{b}) = 0, \end{array}

where, $m_{s}$ is 1/4 sprung mass; $m_{b}$ is wheel assembly mass(include wheel mass and motor shaft mass ); $m_{e s}$ is stator mass; $m_{e r}$ is rotor mass; $k_{0}$ is tire stiffness; $k_{1}$ is vehicle suspension stiffness; $c_{1}$ is vehicle suspension damping; $k_{2}$ is stator suspension stiffness; $c_{2}$ is stator suspension damping; $k_{3}$ is rubber bushing stiffness; $c_{3}$ is rubber bushing damping; $x_{0}$ is the road input to the tire; $x_{b}$ is the vertical displacement of tire; $x_{e s}$ is the vertical displacement of stator; $x_{s}$ is the vertical displacement of sprung mass.

Eq. (2) can be written into matrix form as:

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M [\begin{matrix} {\ddot{x}}_{s} \\ {\ddot{x}}_{b} \\ {\ddot{x}}_{e s} \end{matrix}] + C [\begin{matrix} {\dot{x}}_{s} \\ {\dot{x}}_{b} \\ {\dot{x}}_{e s} \end{matrix}] + K [\begin{matrix} x_{s} \\ x_{b} \\ x_{e s} \end{matrix}] = [\begin{matrix} 0 \\ k_{0} \\ 0 \end{matrix}] x_{0} (s),

where, $M$ is the mass matrix, $C$ is the damping matrix, $K$ is the stiffness matrix:

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M = [\begin{matrix} m_{s} & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & m_{b} + m_{e r} & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & m_{e s} \end{matrix}],

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K = [\begin{matrix} k_{1} + k_{2} & - k_{1} & - k_{2} \\ - k_{1} & k_{0} + k_{1} + k_{3} & - k_{3} \\ - k_{2} & - k_{3} & k_{2} + k_{3} \end{matrix}],

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C = [\begin{matrix} c_{1} + c_{2} & - c_{1} & - c_{2} \\ - c_{1} & c_{1} + c_{3} & - c_{3} \\ - c_{2} & - c_{3} & c_{2} + c_{3} \end{matrix}] .

The Laplace transform of Eq. (2) can be formulated as:

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\{\begin{array}{l} (- m_{s} ω^{2} + (c_{1} + c_{2}) j ω + k_{1} + k_{2}) x_{s} (j ω) - (c_{1} j ω + k_{1}) x_{b} (j ω) \\ - (c_{2} j ω + k_{2}) x_{e s} (j ω) = 0, \\ (- (m_{b} + m_{e r}) ω^{2} + (c_{1} + c_{3}) j ω + k_{0} + k_{1} + k_{3}) x_{b} (j ω) - (c_{1} j ω + k_{1}) x_{s} (j ω) \\ - (c_{3} j ω + k_{3}) x_{e s} (j ω) - k_{0} x_{0} = 0, \\ (- m_{e s} ω^{2} + (c_{2} + c_{3}) j ω + k_{2} + k_{3}) x_{e s} (j ω) - (c_{2} j ω + k_{2}) x_{s} (j ω) \\ - (c_{3} j ω + k_{3}) x_{b} (j ω) = 0 . \end{array}

In order to simplify Eq. (7), set $A = - m_{s} ω^{2} + (c_{1} + c_{2}) j ω + k_{1} + k_{2}$ , $B = - (m_{b} + m_{e r}) ω^{2} + (c_{1} + c_{3}) j ω + k_{0} + k_{1} + k_{3}$ , $C = - m_{e s} ω^{2} + (c_{2} + c_{3}) j ω + k_{2} + k_{3}$ , $E_{1} = c_{1} j ω + k_{1}$ , $E_{2} = c_{2} j ω + k_{2}$ , $E_{3} = c_{3} j ω + k_{3}$ .

The amplitude-frequency response function of the vertical displacement of sprung mass to the vertical displacement of tire is obtained by solving Eq. (7):

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\frac{x_{s}}{x_{b}} = \frac{C E_{1} + E_{2} E_{3}}{{E_{2}}^{2} - A C} .

The amplitude-frequency response function of the vertical displacement of sprung mass to the vertical displacement of road is:

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\frac{x_{s}}{x_{0}} = \frac{- (k_{0} (C E_{1} + E_{2} E_{3}))}{C {E_{1}}^{2} + 2 E_{1} E_{2} E_{3} + B {E_{2}}^{2} + A {E_{3}}^{2} - A B C} .

The amplitude-frequency response function of the vertical displacement of wheel to the vertical displacement of road is:

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\frac{x_{b}}{x_{0}} = \frac{k_{0} ({E_{2}}^{2} - A C)}{C {E_{1}}^{2} + 2 E_{1} E_{2} E_{3} + B {E_{2}}^{2} + A {E_{3}}^{2} - A B C} .

The amplitude-frequency response function of the vertical displacement of stator to the vertical displacement of road is:

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\frac{x_{e s}}{x_{0}} = \frac{- (k_{0} (A E_{3} + E_{1} E_{2}))}{C {E_{1}}^{2} + 2 E_{1} E_{2} E_{3} + B {E_{2}}^{2} + A {E_{3}}^{2} - A B C} .

As for the IWMD electric vehicle with new vibration reduction system, the amplitude-frequency characteristics of sprung mass vertical acceleration (SVA), vehicle suspension dynamic deflection (VSDD), tire dynamic load (TDL) and stator mass vertical acceleration (SMVA) are as follows:

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|H_{1}| = {|H (j ω)|}_{{\ddot{x}}_{s} ~ {\dot{x}}_{0}} = |\frac{{\ddot{x}}_{s}}{{\dot{x}}_{0}}| = ω |\frac{x_{s}}{x_{0}}|,

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|H_{2}| = {|H (j ω)|}_{f_{d} ~ {\dot{x}}_{0}} = |\frac{f_{d}}{{\dot{x}}_{0}}| = \frac{1}{ω} |\frac{x_{s} - x_{b}}{x_{0}}|,

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|H_{3}| = {|H (j ω)|}_{F_{d} / G ~ {\dot{x}}_{0}} = |\frac{F_{d}}{G {\dot{x}}_{0}}| = \frac{1}{G ω} |\frac{k_{0} (x_{b} - x_{0})}{x_{0}}|,

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|H_{4}| = {|H (j ω)|}_{{\ddot{x}}_{e s} ~ {\dot{x}}_{0}} = |\frac{{\ddot{x}}_{e s}}{{\dot{x}}_{0}}| = ω |\frac{x_{e s}}{x_{0}}| .

2.3. Dynamic analysis

In order to analyze the effectiveness of the designed new vibration reduction system, Simulink models of the 1/4 vehicle vibration model of IWMD electric vehicle with traditional vibration reduction system and with new vibration reduction system are established respectively. The established Simulink model of the 1/4 vehicle vibration model of IWMD electric vehicle with new vibration reduction system is shown in Fig. 3.

Fig. 3Simulink model of the 1/4 vehicle vibration model of IWMD electric vehicle with new vibration reduction system

The simulation road is set as B-level, vehicle speed is set as 10 m/s, and simulation time is set as 10 s. The key parameters of simulation are shown in Table 1.

The dynamic time domain responses of the IWMD electric vehicle with traditional vibration reduction system and with new vibration reduction system are shown in Fig. 4.

As can be seen from Fig. 4, when the IWMD electric vehicle driving on B-level road with speed of 10 m/s, the SVA and TDL of the vehicle with new vibration reduction system decrease significantly compared with the vehicle with traditional vibration reduction system, and the VSDD of the vehicle with new vehicle vibration reduction system is optimized to a certain extent although the amplitude changes little.

Table 1Key parameters of simulation

Symbol	Unit	Value
$m_{b}$	kg	260
$m_{e s}$	kg	15
$m_{e r}$	kg	25
$m_{b}$	kg	15
$k_{1}$	N/m	23094
$k_{2}$	N/m	15000
$k_{3}$	N/m	10000
$c_{1}$	N⋅s/m	1761
$c_{2}$	N⋅s/m	1650
$c_{3}$	N⋅s/m	1000

Fig. 4Comparison of time-domain response between different vibration reduction systems

a) SVA

b) VSDD

c) TDL

d) SMVA

The RMS values of four evaluation indexes of time-domain response under B-level road are shown in Table 2.

As can be seen from Table 2, when the IWMD electric vehicle is driving on B-level road with speed of 10 m/s, the RMS values of four evaluation indexes of time-domain response under B-level road of the vehicle with new vibration reduction system is smaller than that of the IWMD electric vehicle with new vibration reduction system, which means that the designed new vibration reduction system can significantly improving vehicle ride comfort.

The dynamic frequency domain responses of the IWMD electric vehicle with traditional vibration reduction system and with new vibration reduction system are shown in Fig. 5.

Table 2RMS values of four evaluation indexes

Evaluation indexes	With tradition vibration reduction system	With new vibration reduction system
SVA	2.3324	0.2374
VSDD	0.0263	0.0185
TDL	3424	464
SMVA	–	7.7277

Fig. 5Comparison of frequency domain responses between different vibration reduction systems

a) SVA

b) VSDD

c) TDL

d) SMVA

As can be seen from Fig. 5, compared with the IMWD electric vehicle with tradition vibration reduction system, the IMWD electric vehicle with new vibration reduction system can well suppress the peak values of vibration response and improve the vehicle vertical performance in the high-frequency resonance region. But in the low-frequency resonance region and mid-frequency resonance region, the peak values of vibration response of IMWD electric vehicle with new vibration reduction system are lager then that with tradition vibration reduction system. So, it is necessary to optimize the parameters of the designed new vibration reduction system to make the designed new vibration reduction system has better vibration reduction effect in all frequency region.

3. Parameter optimization of new in-wheel motor drive electric vehicle vibration reduction system

The vehicle ride comfort evaluation indexes with the preliminarily selected parameters of new vibration reduction system have been greatly improved, but has not been achieved ideal effect. So, it is necessary to optimize the parameters of new vibration reduction system. However, there are so many parameters of the designed new vibration reduction system, it’s difficult to optimized theses parameters simultaneously by traditional methods.

The multi-factor experiment of orthogonal experimental design can experiment multiple factors at the same time, and obtain more comprehensive and accurate experimental results [15-17]. Therefore, based on the conclusion of single factor analysis, the parameters of the new vibration reduction system are optimized by orthogonal experimental method.

3.1. Determine factor level and optimize objective

In order to improve the performance of the designed new vibration reduction system, vehicle suspension stiffness $k_{1}$ , vehicle suspension damping $c_{1}$ , stator suspension stiffness $k_{2}$ , stator suspension damping $c_{2}$ , rubber bushing stiffness $k_{3}$ , rubber bushing damping $c_{3}$ and vehicle speed $v$ are selected as factors. The orthogonal experimental method is used to optimize four evaluation indexes of SVA, VSDD, TDL and SMVA. The designed factors and levels are shown in Table 3.

Table 3Designed factors and horizontal levels

Factor	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4	Level 5	Level 6	Level 7
$k_{1}$	15000	19000	23000	27500	29500	31500	33500
$k_{2}$	4500	8000	11500	15000	18500	22000	25500
$k_{3}$	4500	8000	11500	15000	18500	22000	22500
$c_{1}$	1100	1300	1500	1700	1900	2100	2300
$c_{2}$	400	600	800	1000	1200	1400	1600
$c_{3}$	250	300	350	400	450	500	550
$v$	10	15	20	25	30	35	40

Orthogonal optimization experiment is used to optimize the parameters of new vibration reduction system, in order to obtain the optimization parameters more accurately, multi-objective optimization method is adopted.

In the orthogonal optimization experiment, besides taking the RMS values of SVA, VSDD TDL and SMVA as evaluation index, the comprehensive evaluation index is designed and used. The comprehensive optimization objective is the synthesis of the evaluation indexes of vehicle ride comfort [18], and which expression is as follows:

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\bar{σ} = q_{1} \frac{σ_{a 1}}{σ_{a 0}} + q_{2} \frac{σ_{f d 1}}{σ_{f d 0}} + q_{3} \frac{σ_{F d 1}}{σ_{F d 0}} + q_{4} \frac{σ_{a e s 1}}{σ_{a e s 0}},

where, $σ_{a 1}$ , $σ_{f d 1}$ , $σ_{F d 1}$ and $σ_{a e s 1}$ are respectively the RMS values of the four evaluation indexes, SVA, VSDD, TDL and SMVA, which are obtained by orthogonal experimental of the new vibration reduction system. $σ_{a 0}$ , $σ_{f d 0}$ , $σ_{F d 0}$ , $σ_{a e s 0}$ are RMS values of the four evaluation indexes before orthogonal experiment. $q_{1}$ , $q_{2}$ , $q_{3}$ , $q_{4}$ are the weighting coefficient of each factor, and $q_{1} + q_{2} + q_{3} + q_{4} = 1$ . Since the main goal of the new vibration reduction system is to reduce SVA, therefore the weighting coefficients of each factor are set as $q_{1} = 0.5$ , $q_{2} = 0.2$ , $q_{3} = 0.15$ , $q_{4} = 0.15$ respectively.

3.2. Selection and experiment of orthogonal table

As can be seen from Table 3, orthogonal experiment with seven factors and seven levels is adopt in this paper but the orthogonal table with seven factors and seven levels is not commonly used. Therefore, orthogonal table $L_{49} (7^{8})$ with eight factors and seven levels is used as the orthogonal test table, and all factors and levels are reorganized. The schemes of each orthogonal experiment are determined as shown in Fig. 6.

Fig. 6Determined schemes of each orthogonal experiment

In Fig. 6, numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 respectively represent different levels set by each factor in Table 3. Simulation tests are carried out one by one according to all the data in Fig. 6 and the simulation results and calculation results of each orthogonal experiment are obtained.

3.3. Range analysis of orthogonal test

In order to obtain the influence of different factors on vehicle ride comfort, range analysis of the results obtained by orthogonal experiment is carried out.

The mutual influence of different parameters of new vibration reduction system on vehicle ride comfort is ignored, then six groups of parameters combination scheme are obtained through the results of Fig. 6. Simulations of 1/4 vehicle vibration model of IWMD electric vehicle with new vibration reduction system with six groups of parameters combination scheme are carried out respectively, and RMS values of four evaluation indexes are obtained. Finally, compared the RMS values of four evaluation indexes under six groups of parameters combination scheme with the RMS values of four evaluation indexes before orthogonal experiment to determine whether the vehicle ride comfort is improved. The RMS values of four evaluation indexes of different parameters combination scheme is shown in Table 4.

Table 4RMS values of four evaluation indexes of different parameters combination scheme

Parameters combination scheme	RMS of SVA	RMS of VSDD	RMS of TDL	RMS of SMVA
Before optimization	0.2374	0.0185	464	7.7277
Scheme 1 (A1B1C5D7E7F2G1)	0.1825	0.0276	447	7.3245
Scheme 2 (A1B1C3D2E7F1G1)	0.1521	0.0152	442	6.5165
Scheme 3 (A4B1C6D2E2F1G1)	0.5075	0.0323	408	6.4314
Scheme 4 (A3B1C1D1E1F1G1)	0.5033	0.0301	464	4.78
Scheme 5 (A1B4C7D4E5F1G1)	0.2047	0.0189	437	7.3786
Scheme 6 (A1B1C5D7E7F2G1)	0.1825	0.0276	447	7.3245

As can be seen from Table 4, since the main objective of the designed new vibration reduction system is to reduce SVA to improve vehicle ride comfort, therefore parameters combination scheme 1 (same as parameters combination scheme 6), parameters combination scheme 2 and parameters combination scheme 5 are better.

4. Analysis the vibration reduction performance of different parameters combination schemes

Combined with Eq. (12-15), the amplitude-frequency characteristic curves of each evaluation index of vehicle ride comfort under different parameters combination schemes can be obtained by MATLAB.

4.1. Comparative analysis of parameters combination schemes

In order to finally determine the optimal parameters combination scheme of new vibration reduction system, the vehicle driving simulation on B-class road with the vehicle speed of 10 m/s is carried out, and the simulation results are shown in Fig. 7.

As can be seen from Fig. 7, the parameters combination scheme 1 greatly improves the amplitude-frequency response of the new vibration reduction system, and the amplitudes of each evaluation index decrease correspondingly. The parameters combination scheme 2 reduce the amplitude of SVA and SMVA, but the amplitude of suspension dynamic deflection and TDL are worsened. The parameters combination scheme 5 reduce the amplitude of SVA and TDL, but the amplitude of suspension dynamic deflection and SMVA are worsened.

According to the above analysis, both parameters combination scheme 2 and parameters combination scheme 5 can reduce the amplitude of SVA, but the amplitude other three evaluation indexes are not optimal. However, parameters combination scheme 1 can make the amplitude of four evaluation indexes in a better range. Therefore, parameters combination scheme 1 can improve the comprehensive performance of the vehicle with new in-wheel motor drive electric vehicle vibration reduction system.

Fig. 7Frequency domain responses of different parameters combination schemes

a) SVA

b) VSDD

c) TDL

d) SMVA

4.2. Determine optimal parameters of new in-wheel motor drive electric vehicle vibration reduction system

After simulation comparative analysis of vehicle ride comfort of six parameters combination schemes, it can be concluded that parameters combination scheme 1 is the optimal parameters combination scheme. Then, the parameters of new vibration reduction system are shown in Table 5.

Table 5The optimal parameters of new vibration reduction system

Parameter	Parameter symbol	Unit	Value
Vehicle suspension stiffness	$k_{1}$	N/m	15000
Stator suspension stiffness	$k_{2}$	N/m	4500
Rubber bushing stiffness	$k_{3}$	N/m	18500
Vehicle suspension damping	$c_{1}$	N⋅s/m	2300
Stator suspension damping	$c_{2}$	N⋅s/m	1600
Rubber bushing damping	$c_{3}$	N⋅s/m	300

5. Conclusions

Based on the structure of axial flux motor, a new type of IWMD electric vehicle vibration reduction system with stator suspended is designed. The different parameters combination schemes of the new vibration reduction system are obtained based on orthogonal experiment. Finally, the optimal parameters combination scheme is obtained by simulation comparative analysis.

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05 August 2023

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08 November 2023

Published

28 December 2023

SUBJECTS

Vibration in transportation engineering

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https://doi.org/10.21595/jve.2023.23551

Keywords

in-wheel motor drive

electric vehicle

vibration reduction system

orthogonal experiment

parameter optimization

Acknowledgements

We would like to acknowledge financial support from the Jiangxi Province College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program (Grant Numbers: 202110407016).

Data Availability

The datasets generated during and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

Author Contributions

Lunzuo Li: formal analysis; Sheng Kang: methodology; JiangJun Deng: writing-original draft.

Conflict of interest

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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[1]L. Li, S. Kang, and J. Deng, “Design and parameter optimization of a new type in-wheel motor drive electric vehicle vibration reduction system,” Journal of Vibroengineering, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 401–413, Dec. 2023, doi: 10.21595/jve.2023.23551.

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Li, Lunzuo, Sheng Kang, and Jiangjun Deng. “Design and Parameter Optimization of a New Type In-Wheel Motor Drive Electric Vehicle Vibration Reduction System.” Journal of Vibroengineering 26, no. 2 (December 28, 2023): 401–13. https://doi.org/10.21595/jve.2023.23551.

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Design and parameter optimization of a new type in-wheel motor drive electric vehicle vibration reduction system

Abstract

1. Introduction

2. Design and analysis of IWMD electric vehicle vibration reduction system

2.1. Design of new vibration reduction system

2.2. Dynamics modeling of 1/4 vehicle

2.3. Dynamic analysis

3. Parameter optimization of new in-wheel motor drive electric vehicle vibration reduction system

3.1. Determine factor level and optimize objective

3.2. Selection and experiment of orthogonal table

3.3. Range analysis of orthogonal test

4. Analysis the vibration reduction performance of different parameters combination schemes

4.1. Comparative analysis of parameters combination schemes

4.2. Determine optimal parameters of new in-wheel motor drive electric vehicle vibration reduction system

5. Conclusions

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