Weighted double Q-learning based eco-driving control for intelligent connected plug-in hybrid electric vehicle platoon with incorporation of driving style recognition

Driving style poses significant impacts on eco-driving performance of vehicles, especially for those with hybrid powertrains. By incorporating driving style recognition, an efficient velocity planning and energy management strategy is developed for a platoon of intelligent connected plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). Firstly, a high-fidelity driving style classification and recognition model is established based on the agglomerative hierarchical clustering algorithm, and then the support vector machine algorithm is employed to recognize the driving style. Next, a multi-objective velocity planning problem is formulated with the consideration of the fuel economy, driving adaptability and comfort, following performance, and driving safety optimization as the optimization objective, and is then solved based on orthogonal collocation direct transcription and the interior-point methods. Finally, an energy management strategy incorporating model predictive control and weighted double Q-learning algorithm is built. The simulation results demonstrated that the velocity planning algorithm incorporating driving styles achieved preferable adaptability and comfort. The proposed strategy can achieve up to most 98.88 % energy economy of the stochastic dynamic programming for the following PHEVs, and reduce the overall fuel consumption by 27.39 % for the platoon, comparing to that without driving style incorporation.