Optimisation-based control for electrified vehicles: challenges and opportunities

Abstract

Vehicle electrification is a trend that is transforming the transportation landscape. Automobiles, trains, ships and aircrafts are all being electrified as they are being designed to be more efficient, cleaner and more flexible. Vehicle electrification has brought many multi-faceted challenges and opportunities for control design and system integration. In this paper, we will discuss some of the control problems introduced by vehicle electrification. Case studies will be presented to illustrate the control implications. In particular, optimisation-based energy management solutions will be elucidated as representative examples of new design framework for control design and system integration for hybrid electric vehicles and all electric ships.

Keywords:

• electrification
• vehicles
• hybrid vehicles
• all-electric ships
• optimisation-based control
• energy management