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http://dx.doi.org/10.3745/KTCCS.2014.3.3.63

Conceptual Design and Simulation of an Unmanned Battery Exchangeable Electric Bus Management System  

Kim, Han-Ur (국민대학교 전자공학부)
Park, Jun-Seok (국민대학교 전자공학부)
Oh, Ha-Ryoung (국민대학교 전자공학부)
Seong, Yeong-Rak (국민대학교 전자공학부)
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KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems / v.3, no.3, 2014 , pp. 63-72 More about this Journal
Abstract
The exchangeable battery electric bus is an eco-friendly public transportation vehicle. Due to the technological limitation, however, it should repeatedly change batteries with charged ones. The unmanned battery exchangeable electric bus being studied in Korea can exchange batteries automatically by using a battery swapping system. In this paper, we propose an unmanned battery exchangeable electric bus management system. The proposed system provides two services: the bus information service and the battery change scheduling service. The bus information service is the existing traditional metropolitan area bus information systems, which inform bus passengers how long they should wait for the buses. Our second service assigns a low-battery bus, which needs to change the batteries, to the battery swapping system, which stores fully-charged batteries. To validate the proposed system, we model the system by using the DEVS formalism. The simulation result shows that the proposed system provides the services properly.
Keywords
Bus Information System; Electric Bus; DEVS; Unmanned Battery Exchangeable Electric Bus;
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