A Robust Design of the Model-Free-Adaptive-Control-Based Energy Management for Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle

Xiaodong Liu (), Hongqiang Guo, Xingqun Cheng, Juan Du and Jian Ma ()
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Xiaodong Liu: School of Mechanical & Automotive Engineering, Liaocheng University, Liaocheng 252000, China
Hongqiang Guo: School of Mechanical & Automotive Engineering, Liaocheng University, Liaocheng 252000, China
Xingqun Cheng: School of Mechanical & Automotive Engineering, Liaocheng University, Liaocheng 252000, China
Juan Du: School of Mechanical & Automotive Engineering, Liaocheng University, Liaocheng 252000, China
Jian Ma: School of Automobile, Chang’an University, Xi’an 710064, China

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 20, 1-24

Abstract: This paper proposes a robust design approach based on the Design for Six Sigma (DFSS), to promote the robustness of our previous model-free-adaptive-control-based (MFAC-based) energy management strategy (EMS) for the plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) in real-time application. First, the multi-island genetic algorithm (MIGA) is employed for a deterministic design of the MFAC-based EMS, and the Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) is utilized to evaluate the sigma level of the strategy with the deterministic design results. Second, a DFSS framework is formulated to reinforce the robustness of the MFAC-based EMS, in which the velocity and the vehicle mass are considered external disturbances whilst the terminal state of charge (SOC) of the battery and the fuel consumption (FC) are conducted as responses. In addition, real-time SOC constraints are incorporated into Pontryagin’s minimum principle (PMP) to confine the fluctuation of battery SOC in MFAC-based EMS to make it closer to the solution of the dynamic programming (DP). Finally, the effectiveness of the robust design results is assessed by contrasting with other strategies for various combined driving cycles (including velocity, vehicle mass, and road slope). The comparisons demonstrate the remarkable promotion of the robust design in terms of the energy-saving potential and the performance against external disturbance. The average improvement of the FCs can reach up to a considerable 19.66% and 9.79% in contrast to the charge-depleting and charge-sustaining (CD-CS) strategy as well as the deterministic design of MFAC-based EMS. In particular, the energy-saving performance is comparable to DP, where there is only a gap of −1.68%.

Keywords: plug-in hybrid electric vehicle; model-free-adaptive-control; energy management; Design for Six Sigma; robustness (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: 2022
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