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Optimization and Optimal Control in Automotive Systems

  • Maximises the automotive engineer’s ability to meet increasingly stringent requirements in emissions, fuel economy and driveability
  • Enriches and extends the academic researcher’s understanding of theoretical optimization methods and practical examples
  • Reports the recent work of leading groups from both academia and industry
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences (LNCIS, volume 455)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
  2. Optimization Methods

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Trajectory Optimization: A Survey

      • Anil V. Rao
      Pages 3-21
    3. Extremum Seeking Methods for Online Automotive Calibration

      • Chris Manzie, Will Moase, Rohan Shekhar, Alireza Mohammadi, Dragan Nesic, Ying Tan
      Pages 23-39
    4. Model Predictive Control of Autonomous Vehicles

      • Mario Zanon, Janick V. Frasch, Milan Vukov, Sebastian Sager, Moritz Diehl
      Pages 41-57
  3. Inter and Intra Vehicle System Optimization

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
    2. Intelligent Speed Advising Based on Cooperative Traffic Scenario Determination

      • Rodrigo H. Ordóñez-Hurtado, Wynita M. Griggs, Kay Massow, Robert N. Shorten
      Pages 77-92
    3. Real-Time Near-Optimal Feedback Control of Aggressive Vehicle Maneuvers

      • Panagiotis Tsiotras, Ricardo Sanz Diaz
      Pages 109-129
    4. Applications of Computational Optimal Control to Vehicle Dynamics

      • JoÅ¡ko Deur, Mirko Corić, Josip Kasać, Francis Assadian, Davor Hrovat
      Pages 131-146
    5. Stochastic Fuel Efficient Optimal Control of Vehicle Speed

      • Kevin McDonough, Ilya Kolmanovsky, Dimitar Filev, Steve Szwabowski, Diana Yanakiev, John Michelini
      Pages 147-162
    6. Predictive Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control: Fuel Consumption Benefits and Implementability

      • Dominik Lang, Thomas Stanger, Roman Schmied, Luigi del Re
      Pages 163-178
  4. Powertrain Optimization

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179
    2. Topology Optimization of Hybrid Power Trains

      • Theo Hofman, Maarten Steinbuch
      Pages 181-198
    3. Optimal Energy Management of Automotive Battery Systems Including Thermal Dynamics and Aging

      • Antonio Sciarretta, Domenico di Domenico, Philippe Pognant-Gros, Gianluca Zito
      Pages 219-236
    4. Optimal Control of Diesel Engines with Waste Heat Recovery System

      • Frank Willems, M. C. F. Donkers, Frank Kupper
      Pages 237-253
  5. Optimization of the Engine Operation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 255-255
    2. Learning Based Approaches to Engine Mapping and Calibration Optimization

      • Dimitar Filev, Yan Wang, Ilya Kolmanovsky
      Pages 257-272

About this book

This book demonstrates the use of the optimization techniques that are becoming essential to meet the increasing stringency and variety of requirements for automotive systems. It shows the reader how to move away from earlier approaches, based on some degree of heuristics, to the use of more and more common systematic methods. Even systematic methods can be developed and applied in a large number of forms so the text collects contributions from across the theory, methods and real-world automotive applications of optimization.

Greater fuel economy, significant reductions in permissible emissions, new drivability requirements and the generally increasing complexity of automotive systems are among the criteria that the contributing authors set themselves to meet. In many cases multiple and often conflicting requirements give rise to multi-objective constrained optimization problems which are also considered. Some of these problems fall into the domain of the traditionalmulti-disciplinary optimization applied to system, sub-system or component design parameters and is performed based on system models; others require applications of optimization directly to experimental systems to determine either optimal calibration or the optimal control trajectory/control law.

Optimization and Optimal Control in Automotive Systems reflects the state-of-the-art in and promotes a comprehensive approach to optimization in automotive systems by addressing its different facets, by discussing basic methods and showing practical approaches and specific applications of optimization to design and control problems for automotive systems. The book will be of interest both to academic researchers, either studying optimization or who have links with the automotive industry and to industrially-based engineers and automotive designers.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Design and Control of Mechatronical Systems, Johannes Kepler, University Linz, Linz, Austria

    Harald Waschl

  • Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

    Ilya Kolmanovsky

  • Department of Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Maarten Steinbuch

  • Institute for Design and Control of Mechatronical Systems, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz, Austria

    Luigi del Re

About the editors

Prof. Luigi del Re is Professor at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, where he is head of the Institute for Design and Control of Mechatronical systems. He has 30 years experience in identification and control of complex systems, in particular of engine and vehicle systems, both in industry and academia. He is the editor of two earlier LNCIS volumes on automotive control: Identification for Automotive Systems (978-1-4471-2220-3) and Automotive Model Predictive Control (978-1-84996-070-0) Ilya Kolmanovsky is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan with research interests in control applications to automotive and aerospace systems. Prior to joining the University of Michigan, he had close to 15 years of industrial research experience in powertrain control at Ford Research and Advanced Engineering. 
Maarten Steinbuch is Distinguished University Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology and head of the ControlSystems Technology group. He has experience both in industry and academia, in the field of control of high-tech systems, in particular high-precision motion systems and automotive power trains. 
Harald Waschl is a research assistant at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, where he is with the Institute for Design and Control of Mechatronical systems. He has experience in the field of optimal and model-based control of combustion engines and emission modelling.

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