Design of an Electric Road-Rail Vehicle

In this paper, an electric road-rail vehicle and its control system are designed. The electric vehicle equipped a train couplers in front of it is used as a movable electric signal test bench for China Rail High-speed (CRH). Firstly, architecture of the vehicle is introduced. In the powertrain, hydraulic system is designed for the transition from road mode to rail mode, and vice versa. And in both road and rail modes, the vehicle is driven by an induction machine. Secondly, to improve the driving performance and satisfy different driving conditions, particular control strategy for the induction machine is put forward by using a load torque observer based on sliding mode control theory. The load observer based induction machine control system can improve the speed stability and robustness to the unexpected load disturbing. Finally, experiment is done and the results verify that the algorithm works well.