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Automotive Engineering ›› 2024, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (11): 2046-2058.doi: 10.19562/j.chinasae.qcgc.2024.11.011

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Predictive Cruise Control for Commercial Vehicles Considering Different Time Domains

Xiaohu Geng1,Yao Fu1(),Jie Wang1,Yulong Lei1,Weidong Liu1,Yuhai Wang2,Ke Liu1   

  1. 1.Jilin University,State Key Laboratory of Automotive Simulation and Control,Changchun 130000
    2.FAW Jiefang Qingdao Automobile Co. ,Ltd. ,Qingdao 266000
  • Received:2024-06-02 Revised:2024-07-09 Online:2024-11-25 Published:2024-11-22
  • Contact: Yao Fu E-mail:fu_yao@jlu.edu.cn

Abstract:

Predictive cruise control (PCC) performs long-term speed planning at the planning layer with the objective of predicting energy savings and short-term tracking control for the vehicle speed at the execution layer. Integrating these layers into a single optimal control problem poses significant challenges in system design due to the different time scale step requirements between the planning layer and the execution layer. To address this challenge, a hierarchical control approach is adopted in this paper. At the planning layer, an improved twin delayed deep deterministic policy gradient (TD3) algorithm is utilized to determine the long-term planning speed over the prediction horizon. Meanwhile, at the execution layer, based on model predictive control (MPC), taking the planned vehicle speed as the reference speed and considering engine fuel consumption characteristics and transmission shift laws, further economic optimization and tracking control of the planned speed are carried out in the short term. The hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) validation results show that combining the improved TD3 algorithm with MPC effectively resolves the time scale inconsistency between planning and execution in PCC, which can significantly reduce both fuel consumption and shift frequency during the cruising of heavy-duty commercial vehicles.

Key words: predictive cruising, speed planning and control, deep reinforcement learning, model predictive control