Thanks to the potential of reducing fuel consumption and emissions, hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) have been attracting more and more attention from car manufacturers and researchers. Due to involving two energy sources, i.e., engine and battery, the powertrain in HEVs is a complicated electromechanical coupling system that generates noise and vibration different from that of a traditional vehicle. Accordingly, it is very important to explore the noise and vibration characteristics of HEVs. In this book, a hybrid vehicle with two motors is taken as an example, consisting of a compound planetary gear set (CPGS) as the power-split device, to analyze the noise and vibration characteristics. It is specifically intended for graduates and anyone with an interest in the electrification of full hybrid vehicles.
The book begins with the research background and significance of the HEV. The second chapter presents the structural description and working principal of the target hybrid vehicle. Chapter 3 highlights the noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH) tests and corresponding analysis of the hybrid powertrain. Chapter 4 provides transmission system parameters and meshing stiffness calculation. Chapter 5 discusses the mathematical modeling and analyzes torsional vibration (TV) of HEVs. Finally, modeling of the hybrid powertrain with ADAMS is given in Chapter 6.
Author Biography:
Xiaolin Tang received a B.S. in mechanics engineering and an M.S. in vehicle engineering from Chongqing University, China, in 2006 and 2009, respectively. He received a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, in 2015. He is currently an Associate Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Mechanical Transmissions and at the Department of Automotive Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China. He is also a committeeman of Technical Committee on Vehicle Control and Intelligence of Chinese Association of Automation (CAA). He has led and has been involved in more than 10 research projects, such as National Natural Science Foundation of China, and has published more than 20 papers. His research focuses on Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs), vehicle dynamics, noise and vibration, and transmission control. Yanjun Huang is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at University of Waterloo, where he received his Ph.D. in 2016. His research interest is mainly on the vehicle holistic control in terms of safety, energy-saving, and intelligence, including vehicle dynamics and control, HEV/EV optimization and control, motion planning and control of connected and autonomous vehicles, and human-machine cooperative driving. He has published several books and over 50 papers in journals and conferences. He currently serves as an associate editor and editorial board member of IET Intelligent Transport System, SAE International Journal of Commercial vehicles, International Journal of Vehicle Information and Communications, Automotive Innovation, AIME, etc. Hong Wang is currently a research associate of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering with the University of Waterloo. She received her Ph.D. from the Beijing Institute of Technology in China in 2015. Her research focuses on the component sizing, modeling of hybrid powertrains, and energy management control strategies design for Hybrid electric vehicles; intelligent control theory and application; and autonomous vehicles. Yechen Qin is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow of mechanical engineering with the Beijing Institute of Technology, where he received his B. Eng and Ph.D. in 2010 and 2016. From 2013-2014, he studied at Texas A&M University as a visiting Ph.D. student. From 2017-2018, he studied at the University of Waterloo as a visiting scholar. His research interests include vehicle dynamics control, road estimation, and in-wheel motor vibration control. Amir Khajepour is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Mechatronic Vehicle Systems and senior NSERC/General Motors Industrial Research program in Holistic Vehicle Control. He has applied his expertise in several key multidisciplinary areas including system modeling and control of dynamic systems. His research has resulted in many patents and technology transfers. He is the author of more than 400 journal and conference publications as well as several books. He is a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineering.
