Regenerative brake torque compensation control for dual-motor PHEV considering backlash and hydraulic brake nonlinearity

Abstract

This paper presents a novel nonlinearity-considered regenerative brake torque compensation control (NL-TCC) strategy, aimed at enhancing the brake stability for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) with dual-motor powertrain. The dynamics models of hybrid brake system considering gear backlash and hydraulic brake nonlinearity are established in MATLAB/Simulink environment. Furthermore, the fluctuation of half-shaft torque is adopted as performance indexes to design the NL-TCC strategy for PHEVs with dual-motor powertrain, and the grey wolf optimizer (GWO) is used to obtain the optimal weight coefficients of different stage error functions. Finally, by means of hardware-in-the-loop (HiL) test, it is concluded that the vehicle jerk of the proposed NL-TCC strategy decreases by a minimum of 51.2% than the strategy without torque compensation control.