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Automotive Engineering ›› 2025, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (12): 2336-2345.doi: 10.19562/j.chinasae.qcgc.2025.12.006

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Research on Updating Method of Energy Management Strategy for Fuel Cell Bus with Integrated PER and TL

Ruchen Huang,Hongwen He()   

  1. Beijing Institute of Technology,National Key Laboratory of Advanced Vehicle Integration and Control,Beijing 100081
  • Received:2025-04-11 Revised:2025-05-15 Online:2025-12-25 Published:2025-12-19
  • Contact: Hongwen He E-mail:hwhebit@bit.edu.cn

Abstract:

For the problems of low training efficiency and delayed updating in deep reinforcement learning-based energy management strategies (EMSs), taking the fuel cell bas as the research object, an intelligent EMS updating method integrating prioritized experience replay (PER) and transfer learning (TL) for fuel cell buses is proposed in this paper. A sampling mechanism-enhanced soft actor-critic (ESAC) algorithm is designed to improve EMS training efficiency by incorporating PER into the SAC framework. Furthermore, a TL-based EMS updating method is proposed to enhance the updating efficiency and long-term optimization performance by leveraging the knowledge-sharing mechanism for cross-cycle knowledge transfer and policy reuse of the ESAC-based EMS. Finally, the updated EMS is deployed to the energy management controller for online power distribution optimization. The experimental simulation results show that, compared with SAC, the proposed ESAC algorithm improves training efficiency by 58.33%. Additionally, the proposed updating method enhances EMS updating efficiency by 63.01% and fuel economy by 5.24% over baseline methods, while demonstrating real-time application potential.

Key words: transfer learning, prioritized experience replay, soft actor-critic, energy management strategy updating, fuel cell bus