Cruise/Simulink Combined Simulation for Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicles

In order to accelerate the design of fuel cell (FC)/ battery hybrid vehicles and optimize the related performance,a new modeling and simulation method for the fuel cell (FC)/ battery hybrid vehicle was introduced in this paper. The co- simulation platform was set up by combining MATLAB/ Simulink with AVL/Cruise,where the FC engine was realized in MATLAB/Simulink and the other must vehicle components were modeled in AVL/Cruise. The performance of a certain FC hybrid vehicle with the embedded FC engine was evaluated by using the platform. Simulation results show that this method of simulation can be applied for the design of pawor management strategy,power unit configuration,and performance evaluation of FC hybrid vehicles.