Title

Prognostic And Warning System For Power-Electronic Modules In Electric, Hybrid Electric, And Fuel-Cell Vehicles

Keywords

Electric vehicles; Electronics module; Hybrid vehicles; Reliability

Abstract

Reliability of power-electronic modules is of paramount importance for the commercial success of various types of electric vehicles. In this paper, we study the technical feasibility of detecting and utilizing early symptoms and warning signs of power-module degradation due to thermomechanical stress and fatigue and develop a prognostic system that can monitor the state of health of the power modules in electric, hybrid, and fuel-cell vehicles. A special degradation trace on the VCEsatof the insulated-gate bipolar-transistor modules was observed by a power-cycling accelerated test, which was not reported in literatures. A prognostic system based on utilizing the aforementioned trace is then developed. The system consists of the hardware architecture and current adaptive-algorithm-based software architecture. In addition, this prognostic system hardly increases the hardware cost on existing vehicle-driver system. An extensive simulation based on MATLAB/Simulink verifies the developed prognostic system. © 2008 IEEE.

Publication Date

12-1-2008

Publication Title

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volume

55

Issue

6

Number of Pages

2268-2276

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2008.918399

Socpus ID

65449167664 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/65449167664

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