A ROS-Based Energy Management System for a Prototype Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle

Savvas Piperidis, Iason Chrysomallis, Stavros Georgakopoulos, Nikolaos Ghionis, Lefteris Doitsidis and Nikos Tsourveloudis
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Savvas Piperidis: Intelligent Systems and Robotics Laboratory, School of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete, 73100 Chania, Greece
Iason Chrysomallis: School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, 73100 Chania, Greece
Stavros Georgakopoulos: School of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete, 73100 Chania, Greece
Nikolaos Ghionis: School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, 73100 Chania, Greece
Lefteris Doitsidis: Intelligent Systems and Robotics Laboratory, School of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete, 73100 Chania, Greece
Nikos Tsourveloudis: Intelligent Systems and Robotics Laboratory, School of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete, 73100 Chania, Greece

Energies, 2021, vol. 14, issue 7, 1-19

Abstract: The automotive industry has been rapidly transforming and moving further from internal combustion engines, towards hybrid or electric vehicles. A key component for the successful adoption of the aforementioned approach is their Energy Management Systems (EMSs). In the proposed work, we describe in detail a custom EMS, with unique characteristics, which was developed and installed in a hydrogen-powered prototype vehicle. The development of the EMS was based on off-the-shelf components and the adoption of a Robot Operating System (ROS), a meta-operating system developed for robotic-oriented applications. Our approach offers soft real-time control and the ability to organize the controller of the EMS as a straightforward and comprehensive message system that provides the necessary inter-process communication at the core of the EMS control procedure. We describe in detail the software-based implementation and validate our approach through experimental results obtained while the prototype was racing in a low-energy consumption competition.

Keywords: energy management; energy harvesting; finite state machine; hybrid power systems; hybrid electric vehicles; ROS; supercapacitors (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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