Abstract
The cruise control of high-speed trains is challenging due to the presence of time-varying air resistance coefficients and control constrains. Because the resistance coefficients for high-speed trains are not accurately known and will change with the actual operating environment, the precision of high speed train model is lower. In order to ensure the safe and effective operation of the train, the operating conditions of the train must meet the safety constraints. The most traditional cruise control methods are PID control, model predictive control, and so on, in which the high-speed train model is identified offline. However, the traditional methods typically suffer from performance degradations in the presence of time-varying resistance coefficients. In this paper, an adaptive model predictive control (MPC) method is proposed for cruise control of high-speed trains with time-varying resistance coefficients. The adaptive MPC is designed by combining an adaptive updating law for estimated parameters and a multiply constrained MPC for the estimated system. It is proved theoretically that, with the proposed adaptive MPC, the high-speed trains track the desired speed with ultimately bounded tracking errors, while the estimated parameters are bounded and the relative spring displacement between the two neighboring cars is stable at the equilibrium state. Simulations results validate that proposed method is better than the traditional model predictive control.
Highlights
In recent years, the high-speed railway transportation has played a more and more important role in modern society
One of the demanding control problems associated with the automatic train control (ATC) is cruise control problem in which the speed of the train is automatically controlled to follow a desired trajectory
The methods proposed for cruise control of high-speed trains which are developed based on a motion model obtained from Newton’s second law can be classified into two categories
Summary
The high-speed railway transportation has played a more and more important role in modern society. High-speed train has many more advantages such as high speed, large volume, and safe and comfortable environment than traditional railway traffic. With the speed of the highspeed trains rising, it is extremely difficult for human drivers to guarantee the safety of the operation of high-speed trains. In order to ensure the safe and effective operation of highspeed trains, the automatic train control (ATC) system is proposed, which is used to monitor, control, and adjust the train operations to guarantee safety, punctuality, and comfort [1,2,3]. The methods proposed for cruise control of high-speed trains which are developed based on a motion model obtained from Newton’s second law can be classified into two categories. Considering the relative movement between the two cars, the other one is to construct the high-speed train model by a cascade of masses connected by flexible couplers, which provides much more accuracy in characterizing the dynamics of the high-speed trains [6, 7]
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