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Hierarchical Control Strategy for a Hybrid Hydro-mechanical Transmission (HMT) Power-Train Kai Loon Cheong, Zhekang Du, Perry Y. Li and Thomas R. Chase Abstract— A hydraulic hybrid passenger vehicle using a on the “high level” energy management control aspect to Hydro-mechanical Transmission (HMT) or power-split archi- improve fuel economy. Control implementation on an entire tecture is being developed as a testbed within the Center for vehicle hardware are scarce. [10] reported on the control of Compact and Efficient Fluid Power. In this paper, the design and experimental implementation of a three-level hierarchical a series hydraulic hybrid vehicle using thermostatic energy control approach for this vehicle with a second generation management approach. [13] investigated energy management hardware are presented. This control strategy segregates the strategies for an output coupled power-split hydraulic hybrid tasks of the drive-train into three layers that respectively transmission. However, in their experiments, a hardware in 1) manages the accumulator energy storage (high level); 2) the loop simulation of the engine is used. Other work focus performs vehicle level optimization (mid-level); and 3) attains the desired vehicle operating condition (low level). Different solely on various energy management strategies such as SDP, high level energy management strategies can be employed ECMS or PMP [11], [7], [9], [8] and mainly for electric without affecting the mid and low level controllers. Two ”high hybrid vehicles. In contrast, this paper focuses on low level level” energy management strategies have been implemented (power train level) control which involves