Special issue: Enabling technologies for sustainable vehicle electrification: control, optimisation and diagnostics

International Journal of Vehicle Design 58(2-4) 2012

• A method for the prediction of future driving conditions and for the energy management optimisation of a hybrid electric vehicle
• A spatially-reduced dynamic model for the thermal characterisation of Li-ion battery cells
• Computational methods for the optimisation and design of electromechanical vehicle systems
• Particle swarm optimisation for hybrid electric drive-train sizing
• Optimal power management and powertrain components sizing of fuel cell/battery hybrid electric vehicles based on particle swarm optimisation
• Integrated control of electromechanical braking and regenerative braking in plug-in hybrid electric vehicles
• Design of a reference control architecture for the energy management of electric vehicles
• Virtual PHEV fleet study based on Monte Carlo simulation
• Simultaneous design of the gear ratio and gearshift strategy for a parallel hybrid electric vehicle equipped with AMT
• Optimal energy management strategy for hybrid electric tracked vehicles
• Effect of controller coefficients and converter switching frequency on performance and efficiency of electric drives used in electrical vehicles
• Development of electric machine duty cycles for parallel hybrid electric Beijing city bus based on Markov chain
• Implementation of comfort constraints in dynamic programming for hybrid vehicle energy management
• Study on controlling chaos of permanent magnet synchronous motor in electric vehicles
• Modelling and control of a brake system for an extended range electric vehicle equipped with axle motors
• Analysis of different control strategies for the simultaneous reduction of CO2 and NOx emissions of a diesel hybrid passenger car