Dynamic Electric Differential

The goal of the project is to design, develop, and test a functional torque vectoring algorithm to increase the performance of electric vehicles that utilize two independent rear motors.

So far we have implemented a simple torque vectoring algorithm that is responsive to accelerator position and steering angle. We have implemented this algorithm on a hardware testbed and verified it is functioning as intended.

This quarter we are working on incorporating more data into the algorithm, particularly inertia and suspension travel data. In addition we are working on tuning the parameters of the algorithm to improve overall performance. Finally, we are working on implementing the algorithm on a full-sized FSAE Electric vehicle so we can test our algorithm empirically on an actual vehicle.