Journal
SUSTAINABILITY
Volume 15, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su15064845
Keywords
principal component analysis; hierarchical cluster; electric vehicle; driving cycle; driving cycle construction
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In this paper, a novel driving cycle construction method based on principal component analysis and hierarchical clustering is proposed. The method was verified and compared with traditional K-means clustering. The results show that the proposed method is effective for evaluating electric vehicle performance.
Accurate driving cycles are key for effectively evaluating electric vehicle performance. The K-means algorithm is widely used to construct driving cycles; however, this algorithm is sensitive to outliers, and determining the K value is difficult. In this paper, a novel driving cycle construction method based on principal component analysis and hierarchical clustering is proposed. Real road vehicle data were collected, denoised, and divided into vehicle microtrip data. The eigenvalues of the microtrips were extracted, and their dimensions were reduced through principal component analysis. Hierarchical clustering was then performed to classify the microtrips, and a representative set of microtrips was randomly selected to construct the driving cycle. The constructed driving cycle was verified and compared with a driving cycle constructed using K-means clustering and the New European Driving Cycle. The average relative eigenvalue error, maximum speed acceleration probability distribution difference rate, average cycle error, and simulated relative power consumption error per 100 km between the hierarchical driving cycle and the real road data were superior to those of the K-means driving cycle, which indicated the effectiveness of the proposed method. Though the methodology proposed in this paper has not been verified in other regions, it provided a certain reference value for other research of the developing driving cycle.
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