Predictive cruise control: Utilizing upcoming traffic signal information for improving fuel economy and reducing trip time

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 707-714

  Asadi, Behrang ^a   Vahidi, Ardalan ^a  

^a AMRL   (United States)

Author keywords

Fuel economy; model predictive control (MPC); predictive cruise control (PCC); traffic light preview

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL SYSTEMS; CONTROL ALGORITHMS; CONTROL OBJECTIVES; CRUISE CONTROL; EMISSION LEVEL; GREEN LIGHT; IDLE TIME; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL (MPC); NEAR SET; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; PREDICTIVE CRUISE CONTROL (PCC); SAFE DISTANCE; SHORT RANGE RADAR; SIGNAL INFORMATION; TRAFFIC LIGHT PREVIEW; TRIP TIME; VELOCITY TRAJECTORIES;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER CONTROL; FUEL ECONOMY; FUELS; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; STREET TRAFFIC CONTROL; TRAFFIC SIGNALS;

MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL;

EID: 79955482180     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2010.2047860     Document Type: Article

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