Regenerative Braking with Monitoring System

Abstract

Presently what the world needs is a method or a technology that saves energy from getting wasted. Energy conservation is the hour of need. In case of automobiles, energy conservation can be done by using regenerative braking systems (RBS). When driving an automobile, a great amount of kinetic energy is wasted when brakes are applied, which then makes the start up fairly energy consuming. The main aim of this paper is to develop a technique that reuse the energy which is normally lost during braking. The use of regenerative braking system in automobiles provides us the means to balance the kinetic energy of the vehicle to some extent which is lost during the process of braking. The authors of the paper have discussed two methods of using the kinetic energy which generally gets wasted by converting it into electrical energy.

Keywords: Regenerative braking, DC motor, chopper, IGBT