This thesis focuses on developing an intelligent energy management strategy for eco-driving in Connected and Autonomous Hybrid Electric Vehicles (CA-HEV's), which can be implemented in real-time. The strategy is divided into two layers, i.e. the upper level controller and the lower level controller. The upper level controller can be executed on the remote server. It is responsible for extracting the information from the driver about the trip and the vehicle information using the communication capabilities of the CA-HEV. The gathered information is then utilized by dynamic programming (DP), which is implemented in a bi-layer fashion to reduce the computation burden on the server. The outer layer of the DP algorithm and the optimal velocity trajectory and the inner layer optimizes the power distribution in the powertrain to minimize fuel consumption alongside maintaining charge balance conditions. These global optimal results are evaluated for an ideal environment without any traffic information. The lower level controller is responsible for real-time implementation on vehicles in the real world environment and is based on a well-accredited reinforcement learning (RL) strategy, i.e., Q-learning. The RL-based controller optimally distributes the power in a CA-HEV and maintains charge balance conditions. Furthermore, the RL-based controller is also trained on the remote server based on global optimal results obtained from the DP algorithm. The optimal parameter information is then resent to the vehicle's embedded controller for real-time implementation. Simulations are performed for Toyata Prius (2010) on MATLAB and Simulink, and road information is gathered from SUMO. Simulation results provide a comparative study between the global optimal and the RL-based controller. To validate the adaptiveness of the RL-based controller, it is also tested on two approximate real-world
drivecycles and its performance is compared against global optimal results evaluated using DP. / Thesis / Master of Applied Science (MASc)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:mcmaster.ca/oai:macsphere.mcmaster.ca:11375/26875 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Rathore, Aashit |
| Contributors | Emadi, Ali, Mechanical Engineering |
| Source Sets | McMaster University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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