Acceleration-based Control Strategy and Design for Hybrid Electric Vehicle Auxiliary Energy Source

Abstract

The paper presents a new control strategy and design for auxiliary energy source (AES) used in battery hybrid electric vehicle (BHEV) based on the acceleration power. The control strategy takes actual speed and acceleration of the vehicle and system losses into account for regulating the energy and power supply to the propulsion load. The design of AES and its dynamic control design are demonstrated. Cascade control is availed in this work in order to control the terminal voltage and current of supercapacitors (SCs). The benefits of AES in which recapture of regenerative braking energy are examined by the numerical simulation and verified by a small scale experiment. The comparison of energy consumption and DC bus voltage regulation between pure battery and battery with supercapacitors (BSCs) propulsion system declares the theoretical results and confirms the benefits of the proposed method.