Electric cars are a revolutionary trend in transportation today. Electric cars have advantages compared to cars with internal combustion engines while eliminating complicated gearboxes and emissions and being environmentally friendly [
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2]. The powertrain structure of electric vehicles tends to use an in-wheel distributed electric drive system consisting of multiple motors, which ensures traction at the front or rear of the car on two or four wheels, making the car becomes a front-wheel drive, rear-wheel drive, or four-wheel drive system [
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4]. This electric powertrain improves the driving performance of electric cars by differentiating between the wheels, makes full use of vehicle energy, improves transmission efficiency, increases range, eases braking, has good heat dissipation, and is more convenient for installation and maintenance [
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6]. The axial flux permanent magnet synchronous motor (AFPMSM) is widely used for electric buses and tanks in the in-wheel motor drive system. Because this motor has short shaft length characteristics, the rotor is lightweight, has good vibration resistance, and has a long service life, thus improving the engine’s reliability and safety and reliability [
7]. Although AFPMSM motors enhance the performance of electric vehicles, each vehicle needs to be installed with multiple motors, resulting in complex system control [
8]. In addition, the in-wheel motor increases the vehicle’s cost and has high requirements for the vehicle’s control technology, such as power balancing, electronic differential, and energy recovery. In addition, motor in-wheel for electric cars require a small size, lightweight, small torque, high efficiency, large overload capacity, and wide speed range [
9]. Therefore, scientists have been interested in studying the control of traction and torque of the AFPMSM motor in-wheel leading to having the motor’s response transmit traction from the motor to the wheels as required. Torque and speed controllers are controlled based on direct torque control (DTC) and based on field-oriented control (FOC). In addition, these controllers are designed by linear and nonlinear control methods such as PI, LQR, Dead beat, sliding control, flatness, fuzzy, [
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17]. This research results only stop to evaluate the effectiveness of each solution for torque and speed control in the case of AFPMSM motors operating with unchanged load torque or motor parameters. However, the torque response has a slight pulsation, and the actual speed response quickly and accurately tracks the required speed [
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This paper will present the control design of a in-wheel AFPMSM motor, one stator, and one rotor, using a fuzzy logic and neuro-fuzzy controller for electric vehicle. In this FLC controller, the Surgeon ambiguous inference file is built by two input vectors, the stator current error and the derivative of the stator error. These input variables include five membership functions, Negative big (NB), Negative small (NS), Equal zero (ZE), Positive small (PS), and Positive big (PB). The fuzzy logic controller is implemented with a 5x5 matrix so that the output stator voltage of the controller is met as required [
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23]. Other hand, NFC controller for the neural network-based feature set and the fuzzy system. A forward-looking structured network characterizes the neural network, and the training algorithm is back-propagated. The data is trained based on the network error in the back-propagation training algorithm. The network error is the difference between the target and actual values. Therefore, an appropriate control model can be developed. The proposed fuzzy inference system model is based on the Sugeno model containing a set of rules. The vague concept consists of three steps: fuzzy, rule-based decision-making, and defuzzification. In this hybrid system, the neural network develops the dataset on the deviation between the natural is line with the set is (e) and its integral (∆e). Then, the generated dataset is fed to the fuzzy system, and the control rules are developed [
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25]. This NFC controller is caused by the training and testing phases. The FLC and NFC torque controllers are compared with the PI controller.
The present paper consists of six main parts. First, the state model of the electric car traction transmission system is shown in part 2. Then, based on mathematical equations, design torque controller by the FLC and NFC method in parts 3 &4. The theory’s correctness will be proved by the simulation results and evaluation of the current, speed, and torque responses between the proposed controller and compared with the PI controller in part 5. Finally, concluding the contributions. The research results and recommendations for future solutions to improve and enhance the torque response with simple controller design theory and experimental implementation