A ROS-Based Energy Management System for a Prototype Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle

Savvas Piperidis,Nikos Tsourveloudis,Lefteris Doitsidis,Stavros Georgakopoulos,Iason Chrysomallis,Nikolaos Ghionis

doi:10.3390/en14071964

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Journal: Energies	Publication Date: Apr 1, 2021
Citations: 3	License type: CC BY 4.0

Affiliation: Technical University of Crete

Abstract

The automotive industry has been rapidly transforming and moving further from internal combustion engines, towards hybrid or electric vehicles. A key component for the successful adoption of the aforementioned approach is their Energy Management Systems (EMSs). In the proposed work, we describe in detail a custom EMS, with unique characteristics, which was developed and installed in a hydrogen-powered prototype vehicle. The development of the EMS was based on off-the-shelf components and the adoption of a Robot Operating System (ROS), a meta-operating system developed for robotic-oriented applications. Our approach offers soft real-time control and the ability to organize the controller of the EMS as a straightforward and comprehensive message system that provides the necessary inter-process communication at the core of the EMS control procedure. We describe in detail the software-based implementation and validate our approach through experimental results obtained while the prototype was racing in a low-energy consumption competition.

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The world of automotive engineering has been facing a challenging change that goes far beyond the typical expected evolution caused by technological progress
In the proposed work we describe in detail a custom Energy Management Systems (EMSs), with unique characteristics, which was developed and installed in Spyros Louis (Spyridon Louis, commonly known as Spyros Louis was the Greek Olympic champion of the marathon race at the first Olympic games of modern history, held in Athens in 1896), a racing prototype single-seater car developed and raced by the Technical University of Crete Eco Racing (TUCer) team [20], in low consumption marathons, Figure 1
The development of the Spyros Louis EMS showed that the Robot Operating System (ROS) is a powerful prototyping tool for creating software capable of controlling the automation utilized at the powertrain of Hybrid power source Electric Vehicles (HEVs)