Distributed Decentralised EV - Architecture and Requirements Speci fication



AbstractInternational events continue to make an impact on the price of crude oil, which causes the price of having a traditional car to rise. At the same time there has been an increasing focus on how to optimise the use of renewable energy resources in every day life. Electric vehicles (EVs) have been developing at a slow pace until a few years back. Now, due to the aforementioned events, more research groups and industry stakeholders are getting involved. Governmental initiatives have also been taken to help speed up the process on maturing EV technology and infrastructure. However, there is still a long way to go and the EV market is characterised by a lack of standards and unity of where to focus the development. It is becoming evident that centralised control of a large EV population will not be entirely possible. This thesis targets to help the process of decentralising the control by examining to what extent the control can decentralised. Two major problems related to decentralised has been investigated. Furthermore, work has been focused on moving the charging schedule responsibility to the EV, while having a modular and secure architecture. To ensure the architecture is designed properly a prototype has been implemented and tested in two case studies as proof-of-concept. The results indicates that the overall design constitutes a suitable architecture for a decentralised EV. However, much work still needs to be carried out both in terms of implementing more functionality, but also in terms of more research.
TypeMaster's thesis [Academic thesis]
Year2011
PublisherTechnical University of Denmark, DTU Informatics, E-mail: reception@imm.dtu.dk
AddressAsmussens Alle, Building 305, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
SeriesIMM-M.Sc.-2011-86
NoteSupervised by Associate Professor Bjarne Poulsen, bjp@imm.dtu.dk, DTU Informatics, and Anders Bro Pedersen, DTU-CET
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IMM Group(s)Computer Science & Engineering