SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUES FOR EV CHARGING

With the conventional energy resources diminishing at a rapid rate, it has become extremely important that alternate sources of energy be found to drive vehicles. Electricity is one such option. But it has been observed that by making use of electricity a slight change in the vehicular hardware is required. As a result the plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) and the plug-in electric vehicles (PEV) have been developed. These vehicles have to be charged for their usage. It is observed that the electric power distribution grid is not currently prepared to effectively accommodate the increase in load caused by charging of the Electric Vehicle (EVs) batteries. Solving this issue involves infrastructure development such as establishment of smart grids and also application of a number of signal processing techniques. This paper introduces the main issues related with the operation of EVs in a smart grid infrastructure and the different signal processing techniques can be applied in this context