Development of an Electric Bicycle Experimental Platform

Resumen: This article presents the design, construction and start-up of an experimental platform for the evaluation of schemes for pedaling assistance of electric bicycles. The experimental platform represents a front-wheel drive bicycle. The motor used is a direct current motor (DC motor). The acquisition of the measured signals (angular position and current of the DC motor) and the generation of the PWM signals is carried out in the ARDUINO MEGA 2560. The signals monitoring and control programming was done in MATLAB/Simulink. At this stage, a PI controller is used to regulate the DC motor speed to verify the correct platform operation.

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Mariano Sánchez-Morales & Alejandra de la Guerra. Development of an Electric Bicycle Experimental Platform. Memorias del Congreso Nacional de Control Automático, pp. 103-108, 2021.

Palabras clave

DC motor, experimental platform design, SIMULINK, ARDUINO

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