It is of practical significance to find organic metal-free catalyst materials. We propose a new graphene-like carbon nitride structure, which was able to meet these requirements well. Its primitive cell consists of eight carbon atoms and six nitrogen atoms. Hence, we called this structure g–C₈N₆. The stability of the structure was verified by phonon spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulations. Then its electronic structure was calculated, and its band edge position was compared with the redox potential of water. We analyzed its optical properties and electron–hole recombination rate. After the above analysis, it is predicted that it is a suitable photocatalyst material. To improve its photocatalytic performance, two methods were proposed: applied tensile force and multilayer stacking. Our research is instructive for the photocatalytic application of this kind of materials.

Failure of any of the drive systems in a Four-Wheel Independent Drive (4WID) electric vehicle may affect the control performance and driving safety of the whole vehicle. Therefore, in this paper, a fault-tolerant controller (FTC) for 4WID electric vehicles considering drive actuator failures is proposed. First, a comprehensive characterization of multiple fault types is achieved by establishing a generalized fault model and designing a comprehensive fault factor. Second, based on the comprehensive fault factor, an LPV model with faults is constructed. Further, a fault-tolerant controller based on LPV/H∞ output feedback is designed by combining the weighting function. Finally, the effectiveness of the FTC in this paper is verified by simulation and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) experiments. The experimental results show that the FTC designed in this paper can improve the stability of the vehicle traveling while ensuring tracking accuracy when the drive system fails.

Active steering technology is a key technology for automatic driving vehicles to achieve route tracking and obstacle avoidance and risk avoidance, and its performance will affect the stability control of the vehicle. For solving the stability control issues of vehicles, which have uncertainty in model and robustness in system, this paper proposes an active steering control method based on the receding horizon control model. It calculates the optimal control law by this method by using the real-time vehicle state so that it can compensate for the uncertainty caused by model mismatch, interference, etc. The design of the controller is implemented by using the yaw rate deviation of the vehicle as the input of the receding horizon linear quadratic controller model and then inputting the calculated superposition angle into the vehicle model in real time. We built a Simulink control model to implement co-simulation with CarSim to verify the control effect of the controller. In addition, we built a steering hardware-in-the-loop platform based on the LabVIEW RT system. The experimental results show that the active steering system adopting a receding horizon control method had better system robustness and robust stability.

The existing path tracking methods usually neglect the effect of the drivers on the steering control. This paper proposes a robust steering control method of human-machine steering torque superposition based on linear matrix inequality (LMI) algorithm. First, the model for solving steering superposition torque introduces the steering system and steering resistance torque model in addition to the vehicle model, which increases the nonlinearity and uncertainty of system, and the human in torque superposition control also increases the external interferences. Therefore, this paper proposes a LMI robust control algorithm to reduce the external interference and the influence of uncertain factors on the system and improve the tracking performance of system, by use of Lyapunov stability theory and Schur complement property to convert the region pole assignment and robust control constraint conditions into LMI convex optimization problem. The next, the nonlinear vehicle dynamics solving model including Fiala tire model, steering column model is established; the nonlinear tire model is linearized by use of affine function, and the steering superposition control law is solved by use of LMI. Then, the union CarSim and Simulink simulation is conducted under different situations to verify the robustness and control performance of control system. Finally, through establishing the hardware-in-the-loop experiment table based on LabVIEW-RT, the effectiveness of control strategy is verified. The test results show that the method solves the model uncertainty and the robustness decrement problem resulting from human intervention, ensuring a good tracking performance, and a stable system at the same time.

Nickel-rich ternary cathode materials (NRTCMs) have high energy density and a long cycle life, making them one of the cathode materials of LIB that are currently receiving much attention. However, it has shortcomings such as poor cycling performance (CP) and a high-capacity decay rate. Because of this, the study analyzed the modification effect of WO₃ on NRTCM lithium batteries by preparing WO₃-modified poly-crystal and single-crystal NCM622 materials under the existing conditions of better original cathode materials as reference samples. The results showed that in the morphology and structure testing, with the increase of WO₃ addition, the c/a values of all NCM622-WO₃ samples were greater than 4.95. In the analysis of cycling and rate performance (CRP), as W increased, the rate performance (RP) of the NCM622-W4.0 sample had a discharge specific capacity ratio of 86.2% at 10.0 C/1.0 C. In cyclic voltammetry testing, when the addition amount of WO₃ was 1.0%, the polarization degree of SC-NCM622 sample was the weakest. In the AC impedance test, after six cycles, compared with the original sample, the Ret and R + Rct values of the NCM622-W sample modified with WO₃ showed a significant downward trend. The above results prove that WO₃ modification can lower the polarization of the material, effectively raising the CRP of the battery. It provides a reference path for the further progress of high capacity and stability ternary cathode materials.