The independently controlled electric wheels of distributed drive vehicles provide faster and more accurate actuators for vehicle slip ratio control. Meanwhile, the estimation of the slip ratio of electric wheels has been of vital importance for the dynamics control of distributed drive electric vehicles. However, the conventional slip ratio estimation method is hard to accurately estimate the slip ratio under steering conditions without multiple observations, increasing the cost and introducing errors. Considering that the output torque and motor rotation rate of electric wheels can be accurately collected, the novel slip ratio estimation method takes advantage of the signals of the electric wheels and requires fewer vehicle sensors. Based on the torsional vibration model of electric wheel, the slip ratio estimation method was proposed and validated by simulations and experiments. With the drum dynamometer, the slip ratio estimation method was applied to a single electric wheel for testing, proving the feasibility and accuracy of the proposed method. The slip ratio estimation was finally applied to a fuel cell heavy truck for road tests, of which the results show that the error index is reduced from 0.0152 to 0.0064 compared to the conventional slip ratio estimation method, confirming the good estimation performance achievable via the proposed method.
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