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This book is the result of valuable contributions from many researchers who work on both technical and nontechnical sides of the field to be remedy for typical road transport problems. Many research results are merged together to make this book a guide for industry, academia and policy makers.

Hybrid electric vehicles. --- HEVs (Hybrid electric vehicles) --- Hybrid drive vehicles --- Hybrid vehicles --- Electric vehicles --- Urban & municipal planning

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This book on hybrid electric vehicles brings out six chapters on some of the research activities through the wide range of current issues on hybrid electric vehicles. The first section deals with two interesting applications of HEVs, namely, urban buses and heavy duty working machines. The second one groups papers related to the optimization of the electricity flows in a hybrid electric vehicle, starting from the optimization of recharge in PHEVs through advance storage systems, new motor technologies, and integrated starter-alternator technologies. A comprehensive analysis of the technologies used in HEVs is beyond the aim of the book. However, the content of this volume can be useful to scientists and students to broaden their knowledge of technologies and application of hybrid electric vehicles.

Hybrid electric vehicles. --- HEVs (Hybrid electric vehicles) --- Hybrid drive vehicles --- Hybrid vehicles --- Electric vehicles --- Engineering --- Automobile Engineering --- Physical Sciences --- Engineering and Technology --- Vehicle Engineering

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Electric vehicles --- Automobiles --- Hybrid electric vehicles --- Design and construction. --- Crashworthiness. --- Power supply. --- Safety measures. --- Power trains. --- EVs (Electric vehicles) --- Vehicles, Electric --- Motor vehicles --- HEVs (Hybrid electric vehicles) --- Hybrid drive vehicles --- Hybrid vehicles --- Automotive medicine --- Crashworthiness of automobiles

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This book assembles new methods showing the automotive engineer for the first time how hybrid vehicle configurations can be modeled as systems with discrete and continuous controls. These hybrid systems describe naturally and compactly the networks of embedded systems which use elements such as integrators, hysteresis, state-machines and logical rules to describe the evolution of continuous and discrete dynamics and arise inevitably when modeling hybrid electric vehicles. They can throw light on systems which may otherwise be too complex or recondite. Hybrid Systems, Optimal Control and Hybrid Vehicles shows the reader how to formulate and solve control problems which satisfy multiple objectives which may be arbitrary and complex with contradictory influences on fuel consumption, emissions and drivability. The text introduces industrial engineers, postgraduates and researchers to the theory of hybrid optimal control problems. A series of novel algorithmic developments provides tools for solving engineering problems of growing complexity in the field of hybrid vehicles. Important topics of real relevance rarely found in text books and research publications—switching costs, sensitivity of discrete decisions and there impact on fuel savings, etc.—are discussed and supported with practical applications. These demonstrate the contribution of optimal hybrid control in predictive energy management, advanced powertrain calibration, and the optimization of vehicle configuration with respect to fuel economy, lowest emissions and smoothest drivability. Numerical issues such as computing resources, simplifications and stability are treated to enable readers to assess such complex systems. To help industrial engineers and managers with project decision-making, solutions for many important problems in hybrid vehicle control are provided in terms of requirements, benefits and risks. Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage the transfer of technology in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology has an impact on all areas of the control discipline. The series offers an opportunity for researchers to present an extended exposition of new work in all aspects of industrial control.

Engineering. --- Automotive engineering. --- Control engineering. --- Control. --- Automotive Engineering. --- Control theory. --- Hybrid electric vehicles. --- HEVs (Hybrid electric vehicles) --- Hybrid drive vehicles --- Hybrid vehicles --- Electric vehicles --- Dynamics --- Machine theory --- Control and Systems Theory. --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Control engineering --- Control equipment --- Control theory --- Engineering instruments --- Automation --- Programmable controllers

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This book focuses on the systematic design of architectures, parameters and control of typical hybrid propulsion systems for wheeled and tracked vehicles based on a combination of theoretical research and engineering practice. Adopting a mechatronic system dynamics perspective, principles and methods from the fields of optimal control and system optimization are applied in order to analyze the hybrid propulsion configuration and controller design. Case investigations for typical hybrid propulsion systems of wheeled and tracked ground vehicles are also provided.

Engineering. --- Transportation. --- Computer mathematics. --- Automotive engineering. --- Automotive Engineering. --- Computational Science and Engineering. --- Computer mathematics --- Discrete mathematics --- Electronic data processing --- Public transportation --- Transport --- Transportation --- Transportation, Primitive --- Transportation companies --- Transportation industry --- Locomotion --- Commerce --- Communication and traffic --- Storage and moving trade --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Mathematics --- Economic aspects --- Hybrid electric vehicles. --- HEVs (Hybrid electric vehicles) --- Hybrid drive vehicles --- Hybrid vehicles --- Electric vehicles --- Computer science. --- Informatics --- Science