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LOOKING FOR A MICROCONTROLLER DEVELOPMENT KIT FOR TRACTION CONTROL



The following question is in regards to a college Senior Design Project. Our team is designing a traction control system for an electric motorcycle. The motor on the bike will be a Brushed DC motor rated at 24-72V and 200A max, 110A continuous. We already have a motor controller that determines the current to send to the motor based on a throttle input. Our design involves modulating the throttle input with a transistor, whose gate will be charged from a controller board and MCU.  Based on other sensored inputs (ie: hall effect sensors on the wheels, fork travel linear pot, as well as various other inputs from the bike) the controller will output a PWM signal to the gate of the transistor. To do this, we need a microcontroller and board set-up in which we can program our traction control algorithm.  I was wondering if Texas Instruments had any microcontroller development kits that you believe would fit our needs.  Some of the specs we would like are at least 20 inputs of which at least 5 should be programmable to an analog input.  A few PWM outputs, at least a 10bit A/D converter on board, a comparator on board, and at least a 15MHz frequency oscillator.  The microcontroller needs to be programmable in a relatively upper level language, something comparable to C.  The board needs to be able to be powered off a 12V battery.  If you have an engineer with whom I could speak to on this matter that would be great as well.  In the end, our team wishes to possibly implement this traction controller on an electric superbike that would compete in the TTXGP.  We are currently looking for sponsors as well.  Thank you for looking into this matter.  I look forward to hearing back.
Sincerely,
Joshua Doores

  • Joshua Doores said:

    Our team is designing a traction control system for an electric motorcycle. ... we need a microcontroller and board set-up in which we can program our traction control algorithm.  I was wondering if Texas Instruments had any microcontroller development kits that you believe would fit our needs. 

    I recommend looking at the Hercules™ ARM® Safety MCUs, specifically the TMS570LS ARM Cortex-R4F Series.  This is TI's ARM® Floating Point MCU Family for Transportation Applications.

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