Current status of automotive fuel cells for sustainable transport

Automotive proton-exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) have finally reached a state of technological readiness where several major automotive companies are commercially leasing and selling fuel cell electric vehicles, including Toyota, Honda, and Hyundai. These now claim vehicle speed and acceleration, refueling time, driving range, and durability that rival conventional internal combustion engines and in most cases outperform battery electric vehicles. The residual challenges and areas of improvement which remain for PEMFCs are performance at high current density, durability, and cost. These are expected to be resolved over the coming decade while hydrogen infrastructure needs to become widely available. Here, we briefly discuss the status of automotive PEMFCs, misconceptions about the barriers that platinum usage creates, and the remaining hurdles for the technology to become broadly accepted and implemented.     

近空间飞行器研究发展现状及关键技术问题

本文概述了近空间飞行器的研究现状与发展趋势.讨论了低速与高速近空间飞行器面临的基础科学与关键技术问题,对近空间飞行器的未来发展, 也作了一些简要的讨论.     

Formation and migration of zones in overloaded preparative liquid-solid chromatography

Summary An equilibrium sandwich chamber for continuous thinlayer chromatography was used to study overloaded systems of the heptane + methylene chloride-silica type. Mixtures of two or three dyes were used as the model samples. Wide starting zones were formed using a glass distributor (frontal chromatography stage), then the movement of the zones was recorded during continuous elution. The effect of sample concentration and volume on the maximum separation yield was investigated. Band compression effects are illustrated for samples dissolved in solvents having a low eluent strength. Satisfactory analogy was found to separations in preparative column chromatography. Good separation yield was obtained for frontal + elution TLC: depending on the differences in the R_F values of the components, 6–16 mg samples were completely separated on 0.5×100×75 mm layers containing ca. 1 g of silica.Presented at the Eighth International Symposium on Liquid Chromatography, Baden-Baden, 3–7 May 1983.     

Optimal control problem for an automatic transmission

Attention is given to the control-theoretic aspects of the operation of an automatic transmission for a road vehicle. A differential game model for vehicle control is presented and analyzed; furthermore, the approach leads to a synthesis of the optimal feedback strategy for the selection of the transmission ratio of the automatic gearbox.This work was partially supported by a grant from Control Data.     

Heuristic optimization methods for motion planning of autonomous agricultural vehicles

In this paper, two heuristic optimization techniques are tested and compared in the application of motion planning for autonomous agricultural vehicles: Simulated Annealing and Genetic Algorithms. Several preliminary experimentations are performed for both algorithms, so that the best neighborhood definitions and algorithm parameters are found. Then, the two tuned algorithms are run extensively, but for no more than 2000 cost function evaluations, as run-time is the critical factor for this application. The comparison of the two algorithms showed that the Simulated Annealing algorithm achieves the better performance and outperforms the Genetic Algorithm. The final optimum found by the Simulated Annealing algorithm is considered to be satisfactory for the specific motion planning application.     

New general guidance method in constrained optimal control,part 2: Application to space shuttle guidance

The application and the performance of the neighboring optimal feedback scheme presented in Part 1 of this paper is demonstrated for the heating-constrained cross-range maximization problem of a space-shuttle-orbiter-type vehicle. This problem contains five state variables, two control variables, and a state variable inequality constraint of order zero.This research was supported in part by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft under the Schwerpunktprogramm Anwendungsbezogene Optimierung und Steuerung.The authors wish to express their sincere and grateful appreciation to Professor Roland Bulirsch who encouraged this work.     

智能交通灯控制系统的设计

采用AT89C52单片机,设计城市道口智能交通灯控制系统的硬件组成和软件实现方法.以该方法为基础,设计了南北和东西方向的交通灯正常工作时设置直行倒计时为45 s,左拐倒计时为15 s,行人通行的时候设有盲人提示音.该系统不仅有普通交通灯的功能,还增加了特种车辆自动通行功能及紧急情况的处理.设计中的硬件电路和软件程序均已...     

Identification of dynamic model parameters for lithium-ion batteries used in hybrid electric vehicles

An electrical equivalent circuit model for lithium-ion batteries used for hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) is presented. The model has two RC networks characterizing battery activation and concentration polarization process. The parameters of the model are identified using combined experimental and extended Kalman filter (EKF) recursive methods. The open-circuit voltage and ohmic resistance of the battery are directly measured and calculated from experimental measurements, respectively. The rest of the coupled dynamic parameters, i.e. the RC network parameters, are estimated using the EKF method. Experimental and simulation results are presented to demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed circuit model and parameter identification techniques for simulating battery dynamics.     

A study on equivalent circuit model of lead-acid battery for electric vehicles

A 100Ah@42V lead-acid battery package for electric vehicles are used for study. The hybrid pulse test is applied to the battery package to acquire enough data, by which the partnership for a new generation of vehicles (PNGV) equivalent circuit model parameters are identified by the least square method. Then, the PNGV model is verified under two conditions, i.e., the composite pulse excitation and the constant-current respectively. The corresponding maximum relative errors of output voltage are less than 3% and 3.5%. Results show that the present PNGV equivalent circuit model and verification method is effective, which can satisfy requirement of simulation of power system of electric vehicles.