Prospects for the development of industrial vehicles starter-generators

The paper considers the requirements for and operation features of the vehicles main electrical elements. It presents the technical and operational characteristics of the storage battery, starter and generator along with the analysis of the current starter-generators state, their advantages and disadvantages in relation to medium-power industrial vehicles. The results obtained allow determining the features and assessing the possibility of implementing a starter generator. It is shown that an attempt to create an electrical complex combining the functions of both a starter and a generator in modern medium-power vehicles (industrial tractors, all-terrain vehicles, etc.), taking into account the capabilities of modern electrical equipment, is hardly rational an complex. The solution could be found within the framework of multiply connected electric drive systems, in particular, based on a differential electric drive using planetary mechanical gears and field regulated reluctance machine. The paper also describes the main advantages and features of the operation of planetary mechanisms ed. A brief description and justification for the choice of a field regulated reluctance machine from the standpoint of the implementation of a starter-generator for industrial vehicles of medium power is given.