Li, Bingbing;
Zhuang, Weichao;
Chen, Boli;
Zhang, Hao;
Yu, Sheng;
Zhang, Jianrun;
Yin, Guodong;
(2025)
Predictive Ecological Cooperative Control of Electric Vehicles Platoon on Hilly Roads.
Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering
, 38
, Article 37. 10.1186/s10033-025-01187-w.
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Abstract
The integration of eco-driving and cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC) with platoon cooperative control (eco-CACC) has emerged as a pivotal approach for improving vehicle energy efficiency. Nonetheless, the prevailing eco-CACC implementations still exhibit limitations in fully harnessing the potential energy savings. This can be attributed to the intricate nature of the problem, characterized by its high nonlinearity and non-convexity, making it challenging for conventional solving methods to find solutions. In this paper, a novel strategy based on a decentralized model predictive control (MPC) framework, called predictive ecological cooperative control (PECC), is proposed for vehicle platoon control on hilly roads, aiming to maximize the overall energy efficiency of the platoon. Unlike most existing literature that focuses on suboptimal coordination under predefined leading vehicle trajectories, this strategy employs an approach based on the combination of a long short-term memory network (LSTM) and genetic algorithm (GA) optimization (GA-LSTM) to predict the future speed of the leading vehicle. Notably, a function named the Notch-Filter function (NF()) is introduced to transform the hard state constraints in the eco-CACC problem, thereby alleviating the burden of problem-solving. Finally, through simulation comparisons between PECC and a strategy based on the common eco-CACC modifications, the effectiveness of PECC in improving platoon energy efficiency is demonstrated.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Predictive Ecological Cooperative Control of Electric Vehicles Platoon on Hilly Roads |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s10033-025-01187-w |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s10033-025-01187-w |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
| Keywords: | Electric vehicles platoon, Model predictive control, Energy efficiency, Cooperative adaptive cruise control, Genetic algorithm |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Electronic and Electrical Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10207027 |
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