Adaptive Real-Time Energy Management Strategy for Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle Based on Simplified-ECMS and a Novel Driving Pattern Recognition Method

This paper proposes an adaptive real-time energy management strategy for a parallel plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV). Three efforts have been made. First, a novel driving pattern recognition method based on statistical analysis has been proposed. This method classified driving cycles into three driving patterns: low speed cycle, middle speed cycle, and high speed cycle, and then carried statistical analysis on these three driving patterns to obtain rules; the types of real-time driving cycles can be identified according to these rules. Second, particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is applied to optimize equivalent factor (EF) and then the EF MAPs, indexed vertically by battery’s State of Charge (SOC) and horizontally by driving distance, under the above three driving cycles, are obtained. Finally, an adaptive real-time energy management strategy based on Simplified-ECMS and the novel driving pattern recognition method has been proposed. Simulation on a test driving cycle is performed. The simulation results show that the adaptive energy management strategy can decrease fuel consumption of PHEV by 17.63% under the testing driving cycle, compared to CD-CS-based strategy. The calculation time of the proposed adaptive strategy is obviously shorter than the time of ECMS-based strategy and close to the time of CD-CS-based strategy, which is a real-time control strategy.