Electrical skateboard with cruise control : Comparing energy consumption with and without cruise control

Sammanfattning: The use of electric skateboards as small transport vehicleshas gained in popularity during the latest years, and thereare numerous manufacturers on the market.This report will go through the building of an electricskateboard and implementation of a cruise control. Thiswill be done using an Arduino UNO board and a rotaryencoder to read the speed of the skateboard. The speed ofthe skateboard can also be manually controlled by the riderusing a hand held controller.The thesis of the report is to compare the energy consumptionwith and without the use of cruise control. Thisis done by building two sensors measuring voltage and currentover the motor, to later calculate the energy consumedwhen the skateboard is driven. A number of tests wereconducted and the results show that use of cruise controlconsumes more energy in most cases.