A DUAL-MOTOR COUPLING PROPULSION SYSTEM SIZING AND ENERGY MANAGEMENT BASED ON BI-LEVEL PROGRAMMING METHOD

A dual-motor coupling propulsion system with multi-speed transmission offers the possibility of comprehensive improvement of the vehicle, with an increased difficulty and time cost of design though. This paper takes an electric city bus as research object to design a matching dual-motor propulsion system with two-speed transmission. For convenience and rapidity, a bi-level programming method for parameter matching and energy management of the propulsion system is established. The inner level seeks for the optimal control rules concluding gearshift schedule and torque-allocation proportion for instantaneous minimum power loss, while the outer level leverages the particle swarm optimization algorithm (PSO) to seek the optimal propulsion system parameters within reasonable limits. The objective function of the whole loop takes into account the whole power loss of the entire C-WTVC condition. It indicates that the proposed design and energy management strategy provide a significant improvement of the powertrain efficiency and great reduction of the design cost.