中英文文獻(xiàn)翻譯-混合動(dòng)力液壓挖掘機(jī)動(dòng)力系統(tǒng)控制戰(zhàn)略,中英文,文獻(xiàn),翻譯,混合,動(dòng)力,液壓,挖掘,發(fā)掘,機(jī)動(dòng)力,系統(tǒng),控制,節(jié)制,戰(zhàn)略 第 1 頁(yè)Control strategies of power system in hybrid hydraulic excavatorQing Xiaoa,*, Qingfeng Wanga, Yanting ZhangbaThe State Key Laboratory of Fluid Power Transmission and Control, Zhejiang University, 310027 Hangzhou, ChinabCollege of mechanical and electrical engineering, China University of Petroleum, 257061 Dongying, ChinaAccepted 21 May 2007AbstractHybrid system, which has been successfully used in vehicles, is introduced to hydraulic excavators nowadays. The primary focus of this study is to investigate the control strategies of hybrid system used in hydraulic excavators. At first, the structure and working conditions of hybrid hydraulic excavators are analyzed .Based on the analyses, a control strategy named the engine constant-work-point is proposed and studied in a simulative experimental system. Then the control strategy named double-work-point is presented to overcome the limitations of the constant-work-point control strategy. The features and experimental results of the double-work-point control strategy show that the engine's efficiency and the capacitor's state of charge(SOC)cannot be optimized simultaneously. Thus a dynamic-work-point control strategy, which regulates the engine's working point dynamically, is developed to make the system work better. Experimental results show that the dynamic-work-point control strategy can improve the distribution of engine's 第 2 頁(yè)working points, restrain the capacitor's SOC and has little influence on the performance of the system.Keywords: Hybrid system; Excavator; Engine constant-work-point control strategy; Double-work-point control strategy; Dynamic-work-point control strategy1. IntroductionEnergy is consuming up and pollution is more and more serious in the world range. So research on the energy saving of construction machinery, especially hydraulic excavators, is very necessary and urgent due to their high energy consumption and bad exhaust. Traditional energy saving methods for hydraulic excavator cannot raise the effect on a large scale if there are no major technology breakthrough [1,2].It can be concluded from different working conditions of a hydraulic excavator (condition data derived from the actual work) that its load power varies periodically in a large range, thus the working condition of the engine also changes periodically and therefore cannot always remain in a high efficiency state. That's the main cause that hydraulic excavators have low fuel economy. Hybrid system, which consists of an engine and an electric motor, has the potential of improving fuel economy by operating the engine in an optimum efficiency range and it has been successfully applied in vehicles. So equipping hydraulic excavators with the hybrid system provides a new way to achieve energy savings.Recently, research on the structure, control strategy and energy management of hybrid system in hydraulic excavators has been carrying out [3–9]. Among them, the control strategy, which determines the working state of the components in the power system directly and affects the energy consumption of hydraulic excavators 第 3 頁(yè)ultimately, is one of the major concerns.This paper mainly deals with the control strategies of a hybrid system in hydraulic excavators. We present these control strategies step by step.When a hybrid system is implemented, the fluctuation of load power is absorbed by the accumulator of the power system, making the engine only output the averaged load power. Thus the control strategy of working at a constant high efficiency point can be realized for the engine with the benefit of increasing the efficiency of the engine and system.However, under the control strategy of working at a constant high efficiency point, since the chosen working power of the engine cannot be exactly the same as the average load power, the state of charge (SOC) of the accumulator will rise or drop after one work cycle. After a long time of work, the SOC will exceed its working range, and the system can work normally no longer. To overcome this limitation, we can employ a double-work point control strategy, that is, the engine works at one high power point and one low-power point in the high efficiency area. When the SOC of the accumulator exceeds the assigned upper limit, the engine switches to its low-power point; when the SOC comes to the assigned lower limit, the engine switches to its high-power point. In this way the engine's efficiency remains relatively high and the SOC of the accumulator won’t exceed its working range.Under the double-work-point control strategy, the engine will switch between two working points frequently if the assigned working range of the accumulator is narrow. This is not desirable considering the stability of the system. On the other hand, if the working range of the accumulator's SOC is set wide, the efficiency and cycle-life of the accumulator will be deteriorated. Thus a control strategy, which 第 4 頁(yè)regulates the engine's working point dynamically, has been developed to overcome this drawback in our lab. Under this control strategy, the engine's working point changes dynamically in a high efficiency range according to the accumulator's SOC, and the problems encountered in the double work-point control strategy can be avoided.The paper is organized as follows. Section 2 is devoted to the structure and working conditions of the hybrid system. Section 3 presents the engine constant-work-point control strategy. The engine double-work-point control strategy is demonstrated in section 4. The engine dynamic-work-point control strategy is addressed in section 5 together with experimental results. Finally, conclusions are provided in section 6.2. Structure and working condition of the power system2.1. Structure of the power systemFig. 1. Schematic of parallel hybrid hydraulic excavator.The structure of the power system is shown in Fig. 1. The engine and electric motor drive the hydraulic pump in a parallel hybrid style. The mechanical power of 第 5 頁(yè)the engine outputs to the hydraulic pump directly, which reduces energy conversion loss comparing with the serial hybrid system. The electric motor, which can work as a motor or generator, outputs energy together with the engine or converts the engine's redundant mechanical energy to electrical energy and stores in the capacitor.2.2. Working condition of the power systemFig. 2. Output power of the power system in digging working condition.Fig. 2 shows the normalized output power (P/Pmax) of the power system, where P is output power of the hydraulic excavator, and Pmax is the rated power of the engine. The data are derived from the actual digging work cycles of a certain hydraulic excavator. It can be seen from the figure that the output power fluctuates greatly and periodically, and the cycle time is only about 18 s. Hence a capacitor, which has a fast charge–discharge speed and long cycle-life, is used as an accumulator to balance the fast power fluctuation in the power system.第 6 頁(yè)3. Engine constant-work-point control strategy3.1. Details of the control strategyAccording to the above analyses, the load power of hydraulic excavator is regular and cyclic. The load power in one cycle can be taken as two constituent parts: the average value plus the fluctuation. So it is reasonable to employ the engine constant work- point (constant rotational speed and constant torque) control strategy for the hybrid hydraulic excavator, in which the engine works at a constant point to supply the load average power, and the fluctuating power is supplied by the electric motor-capacitor. In this way the engine can always work in its high efficiency range with high fuel economy and low emission.Under the control strategy of constant-work-point, the rotational speed of the engine is a preset value. Since the electric motor is connected with the engine coaxially, its rotational speed is the same as the engine. It can be seen from Fig. 1 that the torque of the engine is the difference of the torque of the hydraulic pump and that of the electric motor. When the load changes, we should adjust the torque of the electric motor to maintain the engine's torque constant. This can be realized by changing the revolutional slip of the electric motor via regulating its synchronous rotational speed.第 7 頁(yè)Fig. 3. Mechanical characteristic curve of electric motor.Fig. 3 shows the mechanical characteristic curve of the electric motor. Notations in the figure are the following:n Rotational speedM Torquenm Actual rotational speed of the electric motorRevolutional slip?Here nm is a constant. As shown in the figure, the mechanical characteristic curve moves up or down when the synchronous rotational speed of the electric motor changes, and the output torque of the electric motor alternates accordingly. When the synchronous rotational speed is lower than nm, becomes negative and the torque ?of the electric motor also becomes negative (the electric motor works as a generator). Otherwise and the torque of the electric motor are positive. The relationship n?between and the torque of the electric motor is decided by the motor's mechanical characteristic curve.第 8 頁(yè)Fig. 4. Control block diagram of engine torque control.Fig. 4 presents the block diagram of engine torque in the engine constant-work-point control strategy. Notations used in the figure are the following:Mei Target torque of the enginenmi Target synchronous rotational speed of the electric motornmo Actual synchronous rotational speed of the electric motor Revolutional slip of the electric motor m?Mm Output torque of the electric motorMeo Output torque of the engine Given a target torque of the engine Mei, the target synchronous rotational speed of the electric motor nmi is calculated by the control algorithm (Here the PID is chosen); the synchronous speed of the electric motor is controlled by one vector controller; the difference between nmo and nm is and the electric motor outputs ?the torque Mm according to ; then the engine outputs torque Meo to drive the m?hydraulic pump together with the electric motor.第 9 頁(yè)3.2. Experimental systemFig. 5. Schematic of the experimental system.A simulative experimental bench, illustrated in Fig. 5, was established in our lab to study the control strategies for hybrid system. A proportional relief valve was used to simulate the load pressure of hybrid system. The simulation of load flow rate was realized by alternating the displacement of the hydraulic pump. Notations in the figure are the following:pp Pressure of the hydraulic pump Q Flow rate of the hydraulic pump M1 Torque of Mot1M2 Torque of Mot2 U Voltage of the capacitor I Current of the capacitor f1 Frequency control signal of Inv1 f2 Frequency control signal of Inv2 qc Displacement control signal of the hydraulic pump 第 10 頁(yè)pc Pressure control signal of the proportional relief valveFor the convenience of control, we used a 37 kW variable frequency electric motor Mot1, which was controlled by the inverter Inv1, as the replacement of the engine in Fig. 1. A variable-frequency electric motor, Mot2, with the power of 22 kW, was controlled by the inverter Inv2. Mot1 and Mot2 were connected in parallel to drive the hydraulic pump. A set of capacitors, with the capacity of 12.5 F and maximum voltage of 400 V, was used as the accumulator of the experimental system. The main control unit of the system was composed of one industry control computer, one data acquisition card and one data control card. Appropriate sensors were used to measure pp, n, Q, M1, M2, U, I, etc. The controller collected and processed data from the sensors and output the control signals f1, f2, qc, pc to control the rotational speed of the electric motors and flow rate together with the pressure of the hydraulic system.3.3. Experimental results of the control strategyFig. 6. Pressure and flow rate of the hydraulic pump.Based on the analyses, the engine constant-work-point control strategy was 第 11 頁(yè)studied in the experimental system mentioned above. Fig. 6 shows the normalized flow rate (Q/ Qmax) and pressure (p/pmax) of the hydraulic pump in one work cycle (the data were derived from actual work cycle of a hydraulic excavator). We converted the flow rate and pressure to the corresponding signals qc and pc for the hydraulic pump and proportional relief valve in the experiment.Fig. 7. Comparison of the output power.Fig. 7 presents the comparison of normalized output power (P/Pmax) of Mot1, Mot2 and the capacitor. It can be seen that the output power of Mot1 fluctuates little during the cycle, indicating the working point of the engine is almost constant, and the output power of Mot2 is fluctuant. Fig. 7 also shows that the output power of Mot2 is always lower than that of the capacitor; the difference between them is the power conversion loss. Fig. 7 shows that the engine constant-work-point control strategy is basically feasible, but the output power of Mot1 is not exactly constant. The reason is that the algorithm of engine torque control is a simple PID and not proper enough. Improving the control algorithm is the emphasis of our next study.第 12 頁(yè)4. Engine double-work-point control strategySince the chosen working power of the engine cannot be exactly the same as the average of the load power, the SOC of he capacitor will exceed its working range after a long time of work. We further developed a control strategy in which, when the SOC exceeds its upper limit, the engine switches to a low power working point in the high efficiency range, and, when the SOC comes to its lower limit, the engine switches to a high power working point in the high efficiency range, and it is named as the engine double-work-point control strategy. The double-work-point control strategy was studied in our experimental system mentioned above. Its control method is the same as the constant-work-point control strategy, that is, the engine's torque is stabilized via adjusting the synchronous rotational speed of the electric motor. The experimental curves are shown in Fig. 8, where the engine's high-power working point is Ph, the low-power working point is Pl, P/Pmax is the normalized output power of Mot1 and S is the SOC of the capacitor. The figure illustrates working points of Mot1 switching between Pl and Ph according to the capacitor's SOC and the switch style is consistent with the above analyses, which indicates the feasibility of this control strategy. As in the engine constant-work-point control strategy, this control strategy cannot stabilize working point Pl and Ph at exactly constants either.第 13 頁(yè)Fig. 8. Experimental curves of double-work-point control strategy.It can be deduced from the experimental results that the engine will switch between the two working points frequently if the working range of the capacitor's SOC is narrow; this is not favorable for the system's stable work. If the working range of the capacitor's SOC is wide, the efficiency and working life of the capacitor will be deteriorated. Thus, a control strategy, which adjusts the engine working point dynamically, was developed to optimize the engine's working state and capacitor's SOC.5. Engine dynamic-work-point control strategy5.1. Details of the control strategyUnder this control strategy, the engine's working point is dynamically adjusted according to the capacitor's SOC after every work cycle. There are two goals of this control strategy. One is to ensure the distribution of the engine's working points in or 第 14 頁(yè)near its high efficiency range. The other is to restrain the variation range of the capacitor's SOC. The control strategy is listed below.Fig. 9. Engine's efficiency map.Step 1: Calculate the load average power and set the upper and lower limits of the engine's power. The overlapping zone between the power limits and the high efficiency area of the engine is set as the engine's working area, as shown by the dashed line area H in Fig. 9. The coordinates of Fig. 9 are normalized rotational speed (n/nmax) and the torque (M/Mmax). Step 2: Choose engine's initial working point P0(ne,Me) in the area H according to the load average power.Step 3: Set the initial capacitor's SOC S0 and the sensitivity . tS?Step 4: After i′th (i=1, 2, 3…) work cycles, if the current SOC Si and the former SOC Si ? 1 meet Eqs. (1) and (2), the system continues to work without any parameter changes; otherwise, the engine's working point is adjusted by using Eq. (3). 第 15 頁(yè), (1)tiiSS???1, (2)ti0, (3)????????????? 011 &;,, SSKMnPn iiideieiwhere:Pi+1(ne, Me) Engine's working point after i'th work cycles Pi(ne, Me) Engine's working point after (i?1)'th work cycles Kc Adjustment coefficient when engine's power is high Kd Adjustment coefficient when engine's power is low SOC difference, equal to Si?Si ? 1 S?Step 5: Move the engine's working point into or near the H area along the power contour if necessary (as shown in Fig. 9). Step 6: Regulate the control signals of hydraulic system to drive the load according to the changed engine's working point.Step 7: As the engine's working point is regulated along the power contour, the engine's efficiency may be sacrificed to fulfill the need of the load if the adjusted hydraulic control signals are out of the control range.第 16 頁(yè)Fig. 10. Flowchart of the control strategy.The flowchart of the control strategy is shown in Fig. 10. As the engine's working point Pi+1(ne,Me) is regulated to along the power contour by ??eiMnP,1??第 17 頁(yè)adjusting its rotational speed ne and torque Me, the conditions listed below should be met:, (4)een??, (5)1?iiQwhere:Rotational speed and torque of the adjusted engine's working pointeMn?,Flow rate of the hydraulic pump before the engine's working point is 1?iQadjustedFlow rate of the hydraulic pump after the engine's working point is 1??iadjusted and , (6)11??ieiqnQ, (7)??iiwhere:qi+1 Displacement of the hydraulic pump before the engine's working point is adjustedDisplacement of the hydraulic pump after the engine's working point 1??iis adjustedFrom Eqs. (4)–(7), as the rotational speed of the engine is regulated to , the en?control torque is: eM?, (8)eeMn??And the displacement of the hydraulic pump should be:1??iq, (9)1???ieinq第 18 頁(yè)The displacement of the hydraulic pump can be regulated by controlling its stoking mechanism. The rotational speed of the engine can be adjusted by the speed regulation device, and the engine's torque is: , (10)mpeM??It can be seen from Eq. (10) that the engine's torque can be regulated by echanging the output torque of the electric motor. It has also been mentioned in mthe engine constant-work point control strategy that the change of can be mMrealized by adjusting the synchronous rotational speed of the electric motor.Thus, the control strategy can be achieved by controlling the rotational speed of the engine, the synchronous rotational speed of the electric motor and the stoking mechanism of the hydraulic pump.5.2. Experimental results of the control strategy5.2.1. Distribution of the engine's working pointsFig. 11. Distribution of engine working points without hybrid system.第 19 頁(yè)Fig. 12. Distribution of engine working points with hybrid system.Fig. 11 shows the distribution of the engine's working points when the engine drives the hydraulic system solely. As the load fluctuates, the engine's working points shift with various efficiencies. Thus the efficiency of the system cannot be very high. Fig. 12 illustrates the distribution of the engine's working points when the hydraulic system is driven by the hybrid system. Different from that shown in Fig. 11, the engine's working points concentrate in the high efficiency area, and the distribution of the working points is consistent