Study and modeling of transient operation is an important scientific objective. This is due to
the fact that the majority of daily vehicle driving conditions involve transient operation, with …

Modelling of vehicle fuel consumption and emissions has emerged as an effective tool to
help develop and assess vehicle technologies and to help predict vehicle fuel consumption …

Hybrid vehicle techniques have been widely studied recently because of their potential to
significantly improve the fuel economy and drivability of future ground vehicles. Due to the …

This paper presents a formalization of the energy management problem in hybrid electric
vehicles and a comparison of three known methods for solving the resulting optimization …

This paper presents a model predictive control-based obstacle avoidance algorithm for
autonomous ground vehicles at high speed in unstructured environments. The novelty of the …

Due to the complex nature of hybrid electric vehicles, control strategies based on
engineering intuition frequently fail to achieve satisfactory overall system efficiency. This …

Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation is rapidly evolving from a control prototyping tool to a
system modeling, simulation, and synthesis paradigm synergistically combining many …

Hydraulic hybrid propulsion and energy storage components demonstrate characteristics
that are very different from their electric counterparts, thus requiring unique control …

A hybrid electric vehicle simulation tool (HE-VESIM) has been developed at the Automotive
Research Center of the University of Michigan to study the fuel economy potential of hybrid …

Hybrid propulsion systems are one of the critical technologies on the roadmap to future ultra-
efficient trucks. While there is a significant body of work related to hybrid passenger cars and …