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Energy-Efficient Cruise Control Using Optimal Control for a Hybrid Electric Vehicle

Conference ·
OSTI ID:1482386
Increasing connectivity in passenger vehicles provides for a large amount of look-ahead information about driving conditions. An intelligent control algorithm is presented that takes advantage of this information to obtain the operation strategy for the powertrain of a parallel hybrid electric vehicle, in an uncongested highway cruising situation. In order to guarantee sufficient computational efficiency to meet future online requirements, the algorithm is based on Pontryagin’s Minimum Principle. The whole driving/operation strategy is composed of a series of solutions to the optimal control sub-problem for each separate route segment. The control sequence computed offline is then evaluated in Autonomie. The simulation result shows 6% fuel savings compared to a baseline rule-based controller with no speed optimization.
Research Organization:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) - Office of Vehicle Technology
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-06CH11357
OSTI ID:
1482386
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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