Real-Time Optimal Energy Management of Multimode Hybrid Electric Powertrain With Online Trainable Asynchronous Advantage Actor–Critic Algorithm

An online updating framework of an energy management system (EMS) for a multimode hybrid electric powertrain is proposed via cooperation between the asynchronous advantage actor–critic (A3C)-based deep reinforcement learning (DRL) agent and the Markov chain model (MCM). In the overall framework, the DRL agent periodically updates the energy management policy. The MCM expedites the policy update process by generating plenty of probable future …