scholarly journals An Attention-Based Model for Travel Energy Consumption of Electric Vehicle with Traffic Information

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Shen Li ◽  
Hailong Zhang ◽  
Huachun Tan ◽  
Zhiyu Zhong ◽  
Zhuxi Jiang

Mileage anxiety is one of the most important factors that affect the driving experience due to the limitation of battery capacity. Robust and accurate prediction of the energy consumption of the journey of the electric vehicle can guide the driver to allocate the power rationally and relieve the anxiety of the mileage. Since vehicle sharing is the biggest application scenario of electric vehicles, it is a critical challenge in share mobility research area. In this paper, a travel energy consumption prediction model of electric vehicles is proposed in order to improve the mobility of shared cars and reduce the anxiety of drivers because they are worried about insufficient power. A recurrent neural network with attention mechanism and deep neural network is used to build the model. To validate the proposed model, a simulation is demonstrated based on both traffic and vehicle information. After the simulation, experimental results show that the proposed model has high prediction accuracy, and we also show through visualization how the model finds high relevant road segments of the road network while dealing with corresponding traffic state input.

2020 ◽  
Vol 128 ◽  
pp. 19-28
Author(s):  
Teresa Pamuła

The estimation of energy consumption has become an important prerequisite for planning the implementation of electric buses and the required infrastructure for charging them in public urban transport. The article proposes a model for estimating electric bus energy consumption for the bus line of public urban transport. The developed model uses a deep learning network to estimate bus energy consumption, stop by stop, accounting for the road characteristics. The research aimed to develop a neural model for estimating electric energy consumption so that it can be easily applied in large bus networks using real data sources that are widely available to bus operators. The deep learning networks allow for the effective use of a large number of sample data (big data). The energy needed to power a bus which travels a distance from a bus stop to a bus stop is a function of selected parameters, such as distance between stops, driving time between stops, time at the bus stop, average number of passengers, the slope of the road, average speed between stops, extra energy – fixed value for the section. The given relationships were mapped using a neural network. A neural model for estimating the energy consumption of an electric bus can be used in works for determining the necessary battery capacity, for the design of optimized charging strategies and to determine charging infrastructure requirements for electric buses in a public transport network. Ocena zapotrzebowania na energię stała się ważnym warunkiem wstępnym planowania wdrażania autobusów elektrycznych oraz wymaganej infrastruktury do ich ładowania w publicznym transporcie miejskim. W artykule zaproponowano model szacowania zużycia energii przez autobus elektryczny dla linii autobusowej przedsiębiorstwa komunikacji miejskiej. W opracowanym modelu do wyznaczenia zapotrzebowania na energię autobusu na odcinku drogi od przystanku do przystanku z uwzględnieniem charakterystyki drogi lokalnej użyto sieci neuronowej typu deep learning. Celem badań było opracowanie neuronowego modelu szacowania zużycia energii elektrycznej tak, aby można go było łatwo zastosować w dużych sieciach autobusowych przy użyciu rzeczywistych źródeł danych, które są powszechnie dostępne dla operatorów transportu autobusowego. Użycie sieci typu deep learning pozwala na efektywne wykorzystanie dużej liczby danych wzorcowych (tzw. big data). Przyjęto, że wartość energii potrzebna do pokonania odległości od przystanku do przystanku autobusowego jest funkcją wybranych parametrów, takich jak: odległość między przystankami, czas trwania jazdy na odcinku między przystankami, czas przebywania autobusu na przystanku, średnia liczba pasażerów, kąt nachylenia drogi, średnia prędkość na odcinku, energia dodatkowa – stała wartość dla odcinka. Podane zależności zostały odwzorowane za pomocą sieci neuronowej. Neuronowy model oszacowania zużycia energii przez autobus elektryczny może zostać użyty w pracach mających na celu określenie niezbędnej pojemności akumulatorów, zaprojektowanie zoptymalizowanych strategii ładowania oraz określenie wymogów w zakresie infrastruktury ładowania dla autobusów elektrycznych w sieci transportu publicznego.


2021 ◽  
Vol 268 ◽  
pp. 01036
Author(s):  
Rongliang Liang ◽  
Chang Yang

Taking three pure electric vehicles as the research object, the energy consumption and acceleration performance of the electric vehicle are tested and evaluated through the use of the intelligent unmanned test platform of the whole vehicle, which ensures that the accurate and high-speed test of the road test can be realized on the basis of no driver in the vehicle. For the electric vehicle energy consumption test, the intelligent unmanned test platform is used for road test, which not only effectively avoids the driver driving the test vehicle for a long time, but also ensures the accuracy and reliability of the test data. According to the test results, the acceleration response and energy consumption test results of three pure electric vehicles are analyzed and evaluated.


2019 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 01009
Author(s):  
Arkadiusz Dobrzycki ◽  
Michał Filipiak ◽  
Jarosław Jajczyk

This paper describes the trends in growth of the number of electrical vehicles in Europe. The most popular electric cars available on the market were presented, with the capacity of their batteries, energy consumption and range declared by the manufacturer. These data were confronted with the results of road tests. Assuming an average annual mileage, the number of charging cycles was estimated, and on this basis the decrease of battery capacity. The results of calculations were compared with the observations of electric vehicle users. The calculations showed a mileage, after which the user should consider battery packs replacing.


Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 920
Author(s):  
Liesle Caballero ◽  
Álvaro Perafan ◽  
Martha Rinaldy ◽  
Winston Percybrooks

This paper deals with the problem of determining a useful energy budget for a mobile robot in a given environment without having to carry out experimental measures for every possible exploration task. The proposed solution uses machine learning models trained on a subset of possible exploration tasks but able to make predictions on untested scenarios. Additionally, the proposed model does not use any kinematic or dynamic models of the robot, which are not always available. The method is based on a neural network with hyperparameter optimization to improve performance. Tabu List optimization strategy is used to determine the hyperparameter values (number of layers and number of neurons per layer) that minimize the percentage relative absolute error (%RAE) while maximize the Pearson correlation coefficient (R) between predicted data and actual data measured under a number of experimental conditions. Once the optimized artificial neural network is trained, it can be used to predict the performance of an exploration algorithm on arbitrary variations of a grid map scenario. Based on such prediction, it is possible to know the energy needed for the robot to complete the exploration task. A total of 128 tests were carried out using a robot executing two exploration algorithms in a grid map with the objective of locating a target whose location is not known a priori by the robot. The experimental energy consumption was measured and compared with the prediction of our model. A success rate of 96.093% was obtained, measured as the percentage of tests where the energy budget suggested by the model was enough to actually carry out the task when compared to the actual energy consumed in the test, suggesting that the proposed model could be useful for energy budgeting in actual mobile robot applications.


2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (10) ◽  
pp. 116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robail Yasrab

This research presents the idea of a novel fully-Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based model for probabilistic pixel-wise segmentation, titled Encoder-decoder-based CNN for Road-Scene Understanding (ECRU). Lately, scene understanding has become an evolving research area, and semantic segmentation is the most recent method for visual recognition. Among vision-based smart systems, the driving assistance system turns out to be a much preferred research topic. The proposed model is an encoder-decoder that performs pixel-wise class predictions. The encoder network is composed of a VGG-19 layer model, while the decoder network uses 16 upsampling and deconvolution units. The encoder of the network has a very flexible architecture that can be altered and trained for any size and resolution of images. The decoder network upsamples and maps the low-resolution encoder’s features. Consequently, there is a substantial reduction in the trainable parameters, as the network recycles the encoder’s pooling indices for pixel-wise classification and segmentation. The proposed model is intended to offer a simplified CNN model with less overhead and higher performance. The network is trained and tested on the famous road scenes dataset CamVid and offers outstanding outcomes in comparison to similar early approaches like FCN and VGG16 in terms of performance vs. trainable parameters.


2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (34) ◽  
pp. 1750324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong Xiao ◽  
Hai-Jun Huang ◽  
Tie-Qiao Tang

Electric vehicle (EV) has become a potential traffic tool, which has attracted researchers to explore various traffic phenomena caused by EV (e.g. congestion, electricity consumption, etc.). In this paper, we study the energy consumption (including the fuel consumption and the electricity consumption) and emissions of heterogeneous traffic flow (that consists of the traditional vehicle (TV) and EV) under three traffic situations (i.e. uniform flow, shock and rarefaction waves, and a small perturbation) from the perspective of macro traffic flow. The numerical results show that the proportion of electric vehicular flow has great effects on the TV’s fuel consumption and emissions and the EV’s electricity consumption, i.e. the fuel consumption and emissions decrease while the electricity consumption increases with the increase of the proportion of electric vehicular flow. The results can help us better understand the energy consumption and emissions of the heterogeneous traffic flow consisting of TV and EV.


Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (22) ◽  
pp. 7591
Author(s):  
Wojciech Cieslik ◽  
Filip Szwajca ◽  
Jedrzej Zawartowski ◽  
Katarzyna Pietrzak ◽  
Slawomir Rosolski ◽  
...  

The growing number of electric vehicles in recent years is observable in almost all countries. The country’s energy transition should accompany this rise in electromobility if it is currently generated from non-renewable sources. Only electric vehicles powered by renewable energy sources can be considered zero-emission. Therefore, it is essential to conduct interdisciplinary research on the feasibility of combining energy recovery/generation structures and testing the energy consumption of electric vehicles under real driving conditions. This work presents a comprehensive approach for evaluating the energy consumption of a modern public building–electric vehicle system within a specific location. The original methodology developed includes surveys that demonstrate the required mobility range to be provided to occupants of the building under consideration. In the next step, an energy balance was performed for a novel near-zero energy building equipped with a 199.8 kWp photovoltaic installation, the energy from which can be used to charge an electric vehicle. The analysis considered the variation in vehicle energy consumption by season (winter/summer), the actual charging profile of the vehicle, and the parking periods required to achieve the target range for the user.


The paper depicts about the photovoltaic actuated induction motor for driving electric vehicle, helps in improving the efficiency of electric vehicles, the advance “power electronic interface” is used. System efficiency and reliability are improved by this proposed idea, and current or voltage ripple can be effectively reduced. Using this proposed model reduces the component’s dimensions (active and passive), thus reducing costs and this technology reducing stress on switching devices. The designing and analysis of proposed model is done by using MATLAB / Simulink.


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