Design and control of the propulsion for a series Hybrid Electric Vehicle

As one of the future most popular vehicles, Hybrid Electric Vehicle has to satisfy the challenging and often conflicting requirements. Environment concerns have motivated the legislated action by government around the world to reduce nocuous emissions. The requirements for reduction of CO2 need a high fuel economy. The people´s demands for low cost and efficient require a high reliability control system. Modern Hybrid Electric Vehicle advanced techniques can meet above requirements. In this paper, the authors described advanced methodologies for a Hybrid Electric Vehicle. The HEV system configuration is introduction firstly. The microcontroller named MPC566 was selected for the HCU and discussed in the second section. Advanced simulation techniques were developed for the Goble system based on Powertrain System Analysis Toolkit (PSAT). A simulation with developed models in the Matlab/Simulink has been taken to fully explore the potential of these advanced vehicles. Furthermore, a road test for the hybrid vehicle equipped with designed controller based on some drive cycles has been taken. Test results showed that the fuel cost is almost the same with that of simulation.