{"title":"Analysis of a Hybrid Unmanned Aerial Vehicle with a BLDC Propulsion Motor Based on HIL Simulation","authors":"A. Mishra, Taehyung Kim","doi":"10.1109/ITEC51675.2021.9490148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITEC51675.2021.9490148","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a new multi-functional integrated DC-DC converter for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications is presented. Hybrid power sources, including a fuel cell (FC), battery, and solar, are used in the proposed UAV power system to prolong the flight endurance time. For those multiple sources, the proposed integrated DC-DC converter involves in different functional structures, which offer performance optimization of FC and solar panel, charging/discharging operation of the battery, DC bus voltage regulation, and is able to perform in the regenerative operating mode if it is needed. A permanent magnet BLDC motor is employed for the system working with the multi-functional integrated converter. Moreover, the proposed integrated converter can also be used to charge the battery through the grid from any outlet charging station. A real-time hardware-in-the-loop simulation setup has been used to verify the proposed converter and control strategy.","PeriodicalId":339989,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference & Expo (ITEC)","volume":"140 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122417059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Battery Thermal-conscious Energy Management for Hybrid Electric Bus Based on Fully-continuous Control with Deep Reinforcement Learning","authors":"Zhongbao Wei, Haokai Ruan, Hongwen He","doi":"10.1109/ITEC51675.2021.9490073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITEC51675.2021.9490073","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a knowledge-based, thermal-conscious strategy for the energy management of hybrid electric bus (HEB). The deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG) algorithm with priority experience replay (PER) is exploited to distribute the power smartly among energy components. The fully-continuous separate speed- and torque-control mechanism is further devised to excavate the upper optimization potential of PER-DDPG strategy. Moreover, in the PER-DDPG framework, the penalties to over-temperature are embedded for thermal safety enforcement. Comparative results also disclose the superiority of the proposed strategy in terms of the over-temperature protection and overall optimization performance in the energy management of HEB.","PeriodicalId":339989,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference & Expo (ITEC)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122482346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A New Regen-based Energy Management Strategy for Online Control of Hybrid Powertrains","authors":"Lucas Bruck, A. Emadi","doi":"10.1109/ITEC51675.2021.9490092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITEC51675.2021.9490092","url":null,"abstract":"The increasing necessity of manufacturing electrified vehicles also represent an increase in developing controllers that govern such powertrains. This paper uses the equivalent consumption minimization strategy (ECMS) method as the backbone of a novel approach named regen-based equivalent consumption minimization strategy (R-ECMS). The optimization-based algorithm accounts for the charge provided by the regenerative braking when computing the equivalent fuel cost. Although based on the ECMS, the R-ECMS does not share many of the usual limitations, such as having its performance constrained to drive cycles it is optimized for, and the necessity of having extra control rules for charge depletion situations. The results show that the R-ECMS method is more flexible and able to deliver charge sustaining and fuel efficient performances, which is key for plug-in hybrids. Besides, its fuel efficiency for the optimized case has shown to be slightly higher than the fuel efficiency achieved by the ECMS algorithm for the same optimized mission. Nonetheless, research on brake profile prediction must be conducted to allow leveraging the benefits of the R-ECMS algorithm in real applications.","PeriodicalId":339989,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference & Expo (ITEC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130996850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. D. Scher, Mostak Mohammad, B. Ozpineci, O. Onar
{"title":"Design and optimization of cancellation coil topologies for a ferrite-less wireless EV charging pad","authors":"A. D. Scher, Mostak Mohammad, B. Ozpineci, O. Onar","doi":"10.1109/ITEC51675.2021.9490139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITEC51675.2021.9490139","url":null,"abstract":"Ferrite cores are widely used in conventional wireless EV charging pads to reduce stray EMF emissions, but they can be brittle, heavy, and expensive. This work furthers the development of ferrite-less wireless charging pads by comparing an active and two distinct passive cancellation coil topologies as candidates to replace the ferrite. Using the software packages FEMM and MATLAB, each topology is optimized to find the best winding positions and radii to minimize leakage at a specified position under the side of the vehicle. The optimized designs are compared for shielding effectiveness, induced current, and efficiency. All three topologies are able to sufficiently reduce the leakage field below the ICNIRP limit of $27 mumathrm{T}_{text{rms}}$ with just one turn. Interestingly, we find that an array of simple passive cancellation loops performs similar to the more widely studied passive cancellation coil.","PeriodicalId":339989,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference & Expo (ITEC)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127224084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Saman Nasiri, S. Peyghami, M. Parniani, F. Blaabjerg
{"title":"Modeling In-and-Out-of-Water Impact on All-Electric Ship Power System Considering Propeller Submergence in Waves","authors":"Saman Nasiri, S. Peyghami, M. Parniani, F. Blaabjerg","doi":"10.1109/ITEC51675.2021.9490131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITEC51675.2021.9490131","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the advantages of employing an electric propulsion system in All-Electric Ships (AES), additional power fluctuation sources have emerged in the ship power system as a result. Since the propellers are the primary power consumers in the AES, these fluctuations may significantly affect its power system power quality. Thus, for optimal performance of the ship power system, these fluctuations need to be rigorously investigated at the design level of vessels. Waves collision is one of the critical conditions where propellers inject power fluctuations into the ship power system. Therefore, a comprehensive model is essential to analyze the propellers in-and-out-of-water effect on the ship power system thoroughly at the design level. This paper proposes a model-based approach for determining propeller immersion depth variations in collisions with different wave classes. According to this approach, the propellers thrust loss factor caused by the in-and-out-of-water effect can be identified. The proposed method is then applied in an integrated AES model. This model interconnects the ship motion and power system dynamics. The in-and-out-of-water impact on the ship power system can be explored precisely in the model-based design of the vessels by utilizing the proposed model. In the end, the proposed method and the interconnected model have been used to simulate a notional ship in a wave collision condition. Simulations demonstrate that the proposed approach can accurately map the substantial impacts of the vessel-wave encountering conditions on the frequency, voltage, and generally on the power quality of the AES power system.","PeriodicalId":339989,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference & Expo (ITEC)","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127360750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Isaiah Oyewole, Mayuresh Savargaonkar, Abdallah A. Chehade, Youngki Kim
{"title":"A Hybrid Long Short-Term Memory Network for State-of-Charge Estimation of Li-ion Batteries","authors":"Isaiah Oyewole, Mayuresh Savargaonkar, Abdallah A. Chehade, Youngki Kim","doi":"10.1109/ITEC51675.2021.9490188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITEC51675.2021.9490188","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a hybrid LSTM network for robust state-of-charge estimation of Li-ion batteries. The proposed model improves the estimation accuracy of a typical LSTM by using the SOC estimations of other trained machine learning (ML) models in addition to the original measurable battery cell parameters to train the LSTM. The hybrid LSTM intrinsically learns to timely activate the proper ML model by learning the complex dependencies between the accuracy of ML models and cell parameters. The proposed model is shown to achieve around 25% improvement in MAE for the last twenty cycles (near end-of-life) SOC estimation.","PeriodicalId":339989,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference & Expo (ITEC)","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127517269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xiwen Xu, Luocheng Wang, K. Lin, Tiefu Zhao, Shen-En Chen, D. Cook, D. Ward
{"title":"Design Considerations of An Inductive Power Transfer System for Rail Application","authors":"Xiwen Xu, Luocheng Wang, K. Lin, Tiefu Zhao, Shen-En Chen, D. Cook, D. Ward","doi":"10.1109/ITEC51675.2021.9490168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITEC51675.2021.9490168","url":null,"abstract":"Inductive power transfer (IPT) technology has been extensively studied for electric vehicles (EV) in the past decades. However, it has not drawn much attention in railway application. Due to the unique requirements of the railway system, most of the EV coupler designs are not directly compatible with wireless charging applications for a train. To fill this technical gap, this paper discusses the design considerations for railway application and introduces a design of a modular 5-kW IPT system for rail locomotives. According to the design constraints, a novel W-I coupler is proposed for the 5-kW IPT system and the system is optimized via ANSYS Maxwell. A prototype of the proposed IPT system is developed at an airgap of 5 inches and 85 kHz operating frequency. The prototype has been validated in a 1.7 kW output power supply with a DC to DC efficiency of 85.6%. The experimental results validate the feasibility of the IPT system design for rail application.","PeriodicalId":339989,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference & Expo (ITEC)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127537535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Angel A. Recalde, S. Bozhko, J. Atkin, Sharmila Sumsurroah
{"title":"Optimal Voltage for More Electric Aircraft direct current cabling system","authors":"Angel A. Recalde, S. Bozhko, J. Atkin, Sharmila Sumsurroah","doi":"10.1109/ITEC51675.2021.9490090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITEC51675.2021.9490090","url":null,"abstract":"More Electric Aircraft will experience a substantial increase in electrical power budget of electric power system EPS. An appropriate selection of voltage is required to optimize cabling systems and distribute power onboard. The selection of the EPS's voltage is a compromise between weight and power transfer capability constrained by partial discharge phenomena at high altitudes and the aircraft's space availability. Hence, it is necessary to investigate the optimal voltage at which electrical power can be delivered such that cabling's weight and power transfer are optimised while the safety margins to avoid risk of physical discharge phenomena are observed regardless of the amount of power transferred. This paper addresses the selection of EPS optimal voltage for a direct current DC system and it will be shown that an optimized cabling systems does not necessarily require the highest possible voltage or the thickest conductor.","PeriodicalId":339989,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference & Expo (ITEC)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123704791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Ravuri, Hui Yu, Arindam Chatterji, H. Tu, S. Lukic
{"title":"A Compact 50kW High Power Density, Hybrid 3-Level Paralleled T-type Inverter for More Electric Aircraft Applications","authors":"L. Ravuri, Hui Yu, Arindam Chatterji, H. Tu, S. Lukic","doi":"10.1109/ITEC51675.2021.9490099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITEC51675.2021.9490099","url":null,"abstract":"The demand for high performing, lightweight, reliable inverters, increased the scope of wide bandgap and high-switching frequency based solutions. To achieve such high efficiency inverters, it is vital to focus on the system level design considerations to maximize the benefits of these advanced technologies. This paper presents an improved design based on considerations to further reap the benefits of choosing the right inverter topology; increased capabilities through paralleling devices, with reduced total number of switches; and designing a planarized inverter with PCB based busbar. Appropriate thermal analysis and heatsink design has aided in increased system power density along with the overall efficiency. Demonstration of a SOkW 3-phase 3-level paralleled T-type SiC inverter operating at 40kHz switching frequency for aircraft applications is shown to evaluate the benefits of proposed design methodology. The prototype achieves a high power density of 11kW/L.","PeriodicalId":339989,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference & Expo (ITEC)","volume":"242 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122098099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A BLDC Motor-Driven Light Plug-in Electric Vehicle (LPEV) with Cost-Effective On-Board Single-Stage Battery Charging System","authors":"A. Mishra, Taehyung Kim","doi":"10.1109/ITEC51675.2021.9490066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITEC51675.2021.9490066","url":null,"abstract":"This work proposes an efficient configuration for light plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) with a cost-effective and compact charging system. In this paper, an integrated isolated DC-DC converter has been investigated for a light PEV that employs a brushless DC (BLDC) machine as a traction motor to lower the motor drive component cost. The proposed isolated DC-DC converter has the capacity to work efficiently under all working conditions for an electric vehicle including charging, propulsion, and regenerative operations with two energy sources such as utility grid and solar PV. During a battery charging mode by the grid or solar cells, the converter works as an isolated zeta converter. In the propulsion and regenerative operations, the developed converter has buck/boost conversion capability to adjust the dc bus voltage according to driving conditions for the BLDC motor drive to use a cost-effective motor controller and inverter switches. As a result, the overall system is compact, efficient, and cost-effective to make it a suitable solution for an on-board charging system.","PeriodicalId":339989,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference & Expo (ITEC)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117289908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}