Genetic-based bacteria foraging to optimise energy management of hybrid electric vehicles

This study deals with energy management in hybrid electric vehicles. This study first formulates energy management as an optimisation problem. Novelty of this study is use of a population-based hybrid algorithm, genetic-based bacteria foraging, to the problem of energy management. This hybrid algorithm hybridises merits of both genetic algorithm and bacteria foraging optimisation. Encouraging simulation results show that there is a reduction in fuel consumption, whereas retaining technical and commercial efficiency of the electric vehicle.