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Ruchen Huang - IEEE Xplore Author Profile

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Articulated crawler tractors, with their unique structure and performance, not only have increased capacity compared to traditional tractors but also possess high passing performance and maneuverability. This paper presents the design of the walking systems and a whole-vehicle simulation model for an articulated crawler tractor, enabling research on dynamics simulation. Firstly, the 3D models of t...Show More
Energy management strategies (EMSs) play a crucial role in determining the power distribution of hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs). Recently, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has emerged as a prominent approach for developing EMSs. This paper proposes a DRL-based EMS for a series hybrid electric tracked vehicle (SHETV) equipped with an enginegenerator set (EGS) and a battery pack to improve fuel ec...Show More
The enhancing driving economy is a crucial pathway for promoting the development of electrified vehicles, wherein speed planning and energy flow management are two major ways to reduce energy consumption. Different from conventional solutions, this study proposes a coherent integrated methodology for simultaneously regulating the longitudinal speed and powertrain statues based on an improved model...Show More
The energy management strategy (EMS) plays an important part in the systematic control of hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs). In recent years, the EMS based on deep reinforcement learning (DRL) receives more attention. This paper proposes an EMS based on TD3 deep reinforcement learning algorithm with novel experience replay. The experience replay is introduced to select samples via an evaluation netw...Show More
The power distribution and fuel economy of hybrid electric vehicles are greatly influenced by energy management strategies (EMSs). In this paper, a series hybrid electric tracked vehicle (SHETV) with an independent dual-side drive and a full-wave rectification is served as the research object. The EMS based on dynamic programming (DP) is first constructed to be used as the global optimal benchmark...Show More
Energy management strategies (EMSs) directly affect the fuel economy of hybrid electric vehicles, and deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has become the mainstream method for energy management in recent years. This paper proposes an intelligent DRL-based EMS for an urban fuel cell bus (FCB) powered by both fuel cell and battery to improve the energy efficiency of the FCB. To begin, an enhanced soft ...Show More
Developing the remaining useful life (RUL) prediction technology for lithium-ion batteries can effectively provide information for battery maintenance and diagnosis. Although there has been some development in battery RUL prediction methods like model-based methods and data-driven methods, the influence of temperature on battery system is rarely considered. Besides, in the actual operation of the ...Show More
This paper proposes a calculation-efficient predictive energy management strategy (EMS) for a fuel cell hybrid electric bus (FCHEB) based on an improved optimization solver. A deep neural network (DNN) based speed predictor is trained using real bus driving dataset and then adopted to predict the bus speed. After that, the direct collocation method is applied to transform the energy management pro...Show More
Accurate detection of capacity degradation is critical to the safe and efficient utilization of battery systems. Many data-driven capacity estimators were proposed based on emerging intelligent algorithms, but their accuracy depends on the data of complete charged/discharged process and complex algorithm structures. This article developed a computer vision (CV)-based method, constructing battery m...Show More
In this paper, an improved shift without power interruption control strategy is proposed for a new hybrid power transmission system composed of a planetary gear and an improved DCT transmission. In the conventional mode, the power of the engine and the motor are coupled through the planetary row to drive the vehicle in parallel; In the improved mode, the engine and the motor respectively drive thr...Show More
In this paper, for a hybrid power transmission system composed of a planetary gear mechanism and an improved DCT transmission, the vehicle dynamics model, energy management strategy and torque distribution strategy are established through MATLAB, and two-parameter optimal economical shifting law is obtained by analytical method. By constructing a global optimization problem and solving it through ...Show More
This study aims to answer the key question on how to detect the capacity degradation of the power batteries in electric vehicles (EVS) with emerging intelligent methods. Focusing on the random and incomplete charging process in actual EVs usage, the new estimation method only needs a specific charging current segment rather than data from the whole charging process for model training and estimatio...Show More
This paper proposes a real-time predictive energy management strategy (EMS) for a power-split plug-in hybrid electric bus (PHEB) to improve fuel economy by decreasing the total operation cost of fuel and electricity. Firstly, a two- dimensional (2-D) velocity prediction method is adopted to improve the accuracy of the prediction. Then, an online optimal controller is designed to distribute power f...Show More
Deep reinforcement learning-based energy management strategy (EMS) is a state-of-art technology for hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs). This paper proposes a novel EMS based on improved deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG) algorithm with prioritized replay for a power-split plug-in hybrid electric bus (PHEB) to improve the fuel economy of PHEB as well as the learning efficiency of DDPG. Firstly,...Show More
This paper proposes a novel hierarchical predictive energy management strategy combined with deep reinforcement learning (DRL) for a plug-in hybrid electric bus (PHEB). Firstly, a real-world speed profile is used to train the DDPG algorithm to generate the state of charge (SOC) reference intelligently. Then, a hierarchical model predictive control (MPC) strategy is designed to predict the velocity...Show More