Online parameter identification based predictive pressure control for train electro-pneumatic braking systems with
Bin Chen1, Rui Zhang2, Hao Huang1
1College of Automotive and Mechanical Engineering, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha 410114, China.
Abstract:
The electro-pneumatic braking system with ON/OFF solenoid valves has been widely used in trains due to its advantages and superiority. The undesirable impact of the thermal effect on the electro-pneumatic braking system leads to frequent valve switching, degradation of the pressure tracking performance and sometimes instability. This article presents an adaptive model predictive control approach to solve the pressure control problem under temperature uncertainty based on a switched unscented Kalman filter. First, a nonlinear switched dynamical model with the uncertain temperature parameter is derived for the electro-pneumatic braking system by comprehensively integrating its nonlinear, discontinuous dynamics and thermal effect. Using a switched unscented Kalman filter on the presented model of the system, the temperature parameter is accurately estimated to improve the model's accuracy. Based on the corrected system model and the designed adaptive model predictive control method, the pressure tracking performance and the valves' switchings of the electro-pneumatic braking system are improved, and the stability is guaranteed. The simulations and the experiments conducted for a braking system prototype confirm the performance validity of the proposed method.
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