Linear Parameter-Varying Modeling of Electric Vehicle Air Conditioning System

This article presents the approach of quasi LPV (Linear Parameter-Varying) modeling techniques for an air conditioning system of an electric vehicle. Vehicle air conditioning systems are strongly non-linear systems and it is a challenging task to get a precise real time model for control purposes. Therefore, an LPV method is first introduced to estimate the air conditioning system. Experimental results show that the LPV model delivers a very high accuracy for the COP (Coefficient Of Performance) estimation, that can’t be reached by traditional identification methods. Some discussion about the model structure and its application are presented and a non-linear LPV model structure similar to the Hammerstein structure is proposed.