“…Being able to change the vehicle speed without shifting gears or varying engine-speed is the main attractive feature of the HST for the industry. Multimotor hydro-static drive-lines (Guo, Schöne, & Ding, 1994) are one particular type of hydraulic systems, which find application mostly in heavy off-road machines like tractors, harvesters, forklifts. While the use of hydro-static energy transducers has been possible for a long time on these systems, improving the energy characteristics of such machines requires detailed models and correspondingly sophisticated control methods, which need to be developed (Rahmfeld & Skirde, 2010;Shaoyan, Fei, Bin, Jiangang, & Yao, 2011).…”