Ultracapacitor assisted powertrains: Modeling, control, sizing, and the impact on fuel economy

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 576-589

  Rotenberg, Dean ^a   Vahidi, Ardalan ^a   Kolmanovsky, Ilya ^b  

^a AMRL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

dynamic programming; Energy management; hybrid vehicle; model predictive control (MPC); ultracapacitor

Indexed keywords

COMPONENT SIZING; CONTROL DESIGN; CONTROL STRATEGIES; HEURISTIC RULES; HIGH-POWER; HYBRID VEHICLE; LOW POWER; MANAGEMENT CONTROL; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL (MPC); POWER MANAGEMENTS; PREDICTIVE CONTROL STRATEGY; REDUCED ORDER MODELS; RULE-BASED APPROACH; SIMULATION MODEL; ULTRACAPACITORS;

CAPACITORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; FUELS; INDUCTION MOTORS; LAND VEHICLE PROPULSION; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; POWERTRAINS; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; VEHICLES;

FUEL ECONOMY;

EID: 79955483638     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2010.2048431     Document Type: Article

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