Publication detail

Battery Powered Lawn Mower

VOREL, P. MARTIŠ, J.

Original Title

Battery Powered Lawn Mower

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

An electric lawn mower supplied from batteries was designed and constructed. Li-ion cells are used because of their high volumetric and weight energy density. Falling prices of these batteries allow such a conception to be practical. Two separate motors are used – one for the traction and the other for the main blade drive. Both motors are brushless DC motors (three-phase synchronous motors with permanent magnets with a specific waveform of the induced voltage). Hall sensors are used to sense the rotor position which is necessary for the control of converters. A high torque outrunner construction of the blade motor was selected to eliminate the need of a gearbox. The used battery capacity of 1.6 kWh was shown to be unnecessarily high for a practical operation – a long operation time (more than 3 hours for one charge), high weight.

Keywords

BLDC motor, electric lawn mower, Li-ion battery, BMS, inverter

Authors

VOREL, P.; MARTIŠ, J.

Released

22. 8. 2021

ISBN

1938-5862

Periodical

ECS Transactions

Number

1

State

United States of America

Pages from

1

Pages to

8

Pages count

8

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT173204,
  author="Pavel {Vorel} and Jan {Martiš}",
  title="Battery Powered Lawn Mower",
  booktitle="ECS Transactions",
  year="2021",
  journal="ECS Transactions",
  number="1",
  pages="1--8",
  issn="1938-5862"
}